Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data.

This article briefly reviews the steps in the evaluation of a diagnostic test from the anatomy, to the role in clinical practice, and to the statistical methods used to show their performances. The statistical approaches are linked with the phase, clinical question, and objective and are accompanied by examples. More details are provided for phase I and II studies while the statistical treatment of phase III and IV is just briefly presented. Several free online resources useful in the calculation of some statistics are also given.
PMID: 31275427 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - July 6, 2019 Category: Statistics Tags: Comput Math Methods Med Source Type: research