Compbdt: an R program to compare two binary diagnostic tests subject to a paired design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The comparison of the performance of two binary diagnostic tests is an important topic in Clinical Medicine. The most frequent type of sample design to compare two binary diagnostic tests is the paired design. This design consists of applying the two binary diagnostic tests to all of the individuals in a random sample, where the disease status of each individual is known through the application of a gold standard. This article presents an R program to compare parameters of two binary tests subject to a paired design.

Results

The "compbdt" program estimates the sensitivity and the specificity, the likelihood ratios and the predictive values of each diagnostic test applying the confidence intervals with the best asymptotic performance. The program compares the sensi

SUBMITTER: Roldan-Nofuentes JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature