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Estimation of test error rates, disease prevalence and relative risk from misclassified data: a review

Abstract

We review methods for the analysis of categorical clinical and epidemiological data, in which the observations are subject to misclassification. Under certain conditions, it is possible to estimate error parameters such as sensitivity, specificity, relative risk, or predictive value, even though no definitive classification (gold standard) is available. The parameter estimates are obtained by modelling the data, using maximum likelihood, with …

Authors

Walter SD; Irwig LM

Journal

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 923–937

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

1988

DOI

10.1016/0895-4356(88)90110-2

ISSN

0895-4356