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A Dirichlet-Multinomial Gibbs Algorithm for Assessing the Accuracy of Binary Tests in the Absence of a Gold Standard

Joseph B Kadane1

  • 1Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Statistics in Medicine
|January 23, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
Dirichlet‐multinomial distributionGibbs samplerMarkov chain Monte Carlochlamydiasensitivityspecificity

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