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An Investigation of the Variety and Complexity of Statistical Methods Used in Current Internal Medicine Literature

Objectives: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines require internal medicine residents to develop skills in the interpretation of medical literature and to understand the principles of research. A necessary component is the ability to understand the statistical methods used and their results, material that is not an in-depth focus…

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Propagation of Uncertainty in Bayesian Diagnostic Test Interpretation

Objectives: Bayesian interpretation of diagnostic test results usually involves point estimates of the pretest probability and the likelihood ratio corresponding to the test result; however, it may be more appropriate in clinical situations to consider instead a range of possible values to express uncertainty in the estimates of these parameters….

Posted in: sensitivity 2 specificity 2 statistics 2
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