A Software Tool for Calculating the Uncertainty of Diagnostic Accuracy Measures.

ABSTRACT: Screening and diagnostic tests are applied for the classification of people into diseased and non-diseased populations. Although diagnostic accuracy measures are used to evaluate the correctness of classification in clinical research and practice, there has been limited research on their uncertainty. The objective for this work was to develop a tool for calculating the uncertainty of diagnostic accuracy measures, as diagnostic accuracy is fundamental to clinical decision-making. For this reason, the freely available interactive program Diagnostic Uncertainty has been developed in the Wolfram language. The program provides six modules with nine submodules for calculating and plotting the standard measurement, sampling and combined uncertainty and the resultant confidence intervals of variou

SUBMITTER: Chatzimichail T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7997227 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature