Likelihood Ratio (LR)
On the monotone likelihood ratio of a
... KEY WORDS: Faulty inspection distribution; Hypergeometric distribution; Measure- ment error model; Monotone likelihood ratio; Screening tests.... A sample.[r] ...
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The Laplace Likelihood Ratio Test for Heteroscedasticity
... the likelihood ratio test for heteroscedasticity, assuming the Laplace distribution, gives good results for Gaussian and fat-tailed ...The likelihood ratio test, assuming normality, is very ...
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Semiparametric Likelihood Ratio Inference
... case likelihood ratio confidence regions are gen- erally preferred over Wald-type confidence regions, except perhaps from a computational ...the likelihood ratio test as in Thomas and ...
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Questioning the “SPIN and SNOUT” rule in clinical testing
... the likelihood ratio. Likelihood ratios determine how much more likely a particular test result is among people who have the clinical condition of interest than it is among people who do not have the ...
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On Sequential Track Extraction within the PMHT Framework
... sequential likelihood-ratio (LR) test for track extraction has been developed and integrated into the framework of traditional Bayesian multiple hypothesis tracking by G¨unter van Keuk in ...
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Edgeworth size corrected W, LR and LM test in the formation of the preliminary test estimator
... (W), likelihood ratio (LR) and Lagrange multiplier (LM) ...W, LR and LM tests, the use of the Edgeworth size corrected W, LR and LM tests in the formation of the PTEs reduces the ...
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Testing for the buffered autoregressive processes
... quasi-likelihood ratio (LR) test for the thresholds in buffered autoregressive ...the LR test statistic con- verges to a function of a centered Gaussian ...this LR test has nontrivial ...
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Shoulder pain in primary care: diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination tests for non traumatic acromioclavicular joint pain
... positive likelihood ratio of the Active Com- pression/O’Brien’s test was only ...the likelihood of a PAR in individual patients above the level of ‘chance’ ...positive likelihood ratio ...
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Heteroskedasticity in One-Way Error Component Probit Models
... a likelihood ratio (LR) test procedure for homoskedasticity in a panel probit model that allows one to investigate various forms of heteroskedasticity under alternative ...The LR test has ...
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Assessing chronic wound perfusion in the lower extremity: current and emerging approaches
... Abbreviations: PPP, palpable pedal pulse; PAD, peripheral artery disease; LR, likelihood ratio; CI, confidence interval; PPV, positive predictive value; ABI, ankle brachial index; ABi,[r] ...
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Accuracy of p57KIP2 compared with genotyping for the diagnosis of complete hydatidiform mole: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
... ; LR: Likelihood ratio; MEDLINE: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online; NPV: Negative predictive value; OAIster: Open Archives Initiative; PHM: Partial hydatidiform mole; PIRO: ...
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Impact of 3T multiparametric MRI and FDG-PET-CT in the evaluation of occult primary cancer with cervical node metastasis
... detection rate proved by histology was 47.4 %. PET/CT provided the highest sensitivity (Sv: 94.4 %) but a lower specificity (Sp: 65.0 %), using MPMRI (Sv: 88.2 %) the specificity increased to 71.4 %. DWIincreased ...
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Development and validation of a pre hospital “Red Flag” alert for activation of intra hospital haemorrhage control response in blunt trauma
... Positive likelihood ratio; AIS: Abbreviated Injury Scale; AUC: Area under the ROC curve; BMI: Body mass index; DBP: Diastolic arterial blood pressure; EMS: Emergency Medical Service; GCS: Glasgow Coma ...
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Pitfalls of the most commonly used models of context dependent substitution
... standard likelihood ratio test statistic ...as LR(CG ⇔ TG)/LR(diGTR), where the ratio is between models belonging to the same model ...
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Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta analysis
... We used standard methods recommended for meta-anal- yses of diagnostic test evaluations [17-19]. Analyses were performed using Meta-Test [20], and Stata version 8 (Stata Corporation, Texas). We computed the following ...
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Diagnostic test evaluation parameters for fine needle aspiration cytology among visible thyroid swellings
... Positive Likelihood Ratio is ...weighted Likelihood Ratio indicated to be ...Odds Ratio of ...the LR-(away from 1, the smaller it is), the more accurate ...
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Impact of systolic blood pressure limits on the diagnostic value of triage algorithms
... ASAV: Amberg-Schwandorf-Algorithm; ATLS: Advanced Trauma Life Support; BMI: Body-Mass-Index; CF: Care Flight; FTS: Field Triage Score; J: Youden Index; LR-: Negative Likelihood Ratio; LR[r] ...
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The diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid lactate for post neurosurgical bacterial meningitis: a meta analysis
... positive likelihood ratio (LR+), pooled negative likelihood ratio (LR-), pooled diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and AUC were computed using the software indicated ...
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Use of CRB 65 and quick Sepsis related Organ Failure Assessment to predict site of care and mortality in pneumonia patients in the emergency department: a retrospective study
... Abbreviations: qSOFA quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value, LR+ positive likelihood ratio, LR− negative likelihood r[r] ...
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Serum and blood based biomarkers for lung cancer screening : a systematic review
... All three biomarkers show promise in their diagnostic ability to detect lung cancer. The plasma-based micro- RNA signature classifier (MSC) trended towards the high- est sensitivity, specificity, and positive ...
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