Böcker av Lyle D. Broemeling

After a review of the usual measures, including specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and the area under the ROC curve, this book expands its scope to cover the more advanced topics of verification bias, diagnostic tests with imperfect gold standards, and medical tests where no gold standard is available

This practical book presents the main ideas for the analysis of repeated measures and associated designs from a Bayesian viewpoint. It describes many inferential methods for analyzing repeated measures in various scientific areas, especially biostatistics. The author bases all the computing and analysis on the WinBUGS package, which provides readers with a platform that efficiently uses prior information. The book includes the WinBUGS code needed to implement posterior analysis and offers the code for download online.

This practical book presents the main ideas for the analysis of repeated measures and associated designs from a Bayesian viewpoint. It describes many inferential methods for analyzing repeated measures in various scientific areas, especially biostatistics. The author bases all the computing and analysis on the WinBUGS package, which provides readers with a platform that efficiently uses prior information. The book includes the WinBUGS code needed to implement posterior analysis and offers the code for download online.

Exploring Bayesian statistics at an introductory level, this book illustrates how to apply these methods to solve problems in medicine and biology. It introduces Bayesian statistics and the estimation of accuracy. It then discusses patient covariate information and the statistical methods for estimating the agreement among observers.