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Sample size estimation in diagnostic test studies of biomedical informatics
1Dept of Social Sciences and Health, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
Objectives:
This review provided a conceptual framework of sample size calculations in the studies of diagnostic test accuracy in various conditions and test outcomes.
Methods:
The formulae of sample size calculations for estimation of adequate sensitivity/specificity, likelihood ratio and AUC as an overall index of accuracy and also for testing in single modality and comparing two diagnostic tasks have been presented for desired confidence interval.
Results:
The required sample sizes were calculated and tabulated with different levels of accuracies and marginal errors with 95% confidence level for estimating and for various effect sizes with 80% power for purpose of testing as well. The results show how sample size is varied with accuracy index and effect size of interest.
Conclusion:
This would help the clinicians when designing diagnostic test studies that an adequate sample size is chosen based on statistical principles in order to guarantee the reliability of study.
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