Comparison of Two Bayesian Methods in Evaluation of the Absence of the Gold Standard Diagnostic Tests

Objective. The Bayesian model plays an important role in diagnostic test evaluation in the absence of the gold standard, which used the external prior distribution of a parameter combined with sample data to yield the posterior distribution of the test characteristics. However, the correlation betwe...

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Main Authors: Taishun Li, Pei Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1374748