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Statistics in the pathology laboratory: characteristics of diagnostic tests
1Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. mariannee@ahsl.co.nz
Pathology
|March 31, 2001
Abstract:
Sensitivity, specificity and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves all provide information about the ability of a diagnostic test to provide useful information in the assessment of disease. They are discussed in this review along with the importance of estimates of precision.