Comparing two tests used for diagnostic or screening purposes

✍ Scribed by Seymour Geisser

• Book ID: 104302852
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 408 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7152
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00067-4

✦ Synopsis

We present a Bayesian approach to the comparison of two binary diagnostic tests in a decision framework. We also show how a binary test that depends on a random variable may be optimally dichotomized with respect to the loss function. (~