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Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Sensitivity of a Continuous-Scale Diagnostic Test

Davis, Angela Elaine
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Diagnostic testing is essential to distinguish non-diseased individuals from diseased individuals. More accurate tests lead to improved treatment and thus reduce medical mistakes. The sensitivity and specificity are two important measurements for the diagnostic accuracy of a diagnostic test. When the test results are continuous, it is of interest to construct a confidence interval for the sensitivity at a fixed level of specificity for the test. In this thesis, we propose three empirical likelihood intervals for the sensitivity. Simulation studies are conducted to compare the empirical likelihood based confidence intervals with the existing normal approximation based confidence interval. Our studies show that the new intervals had better coverage probability than the normal approximation based interval in most simulation settings.

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2007-05-04
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Empirical Likelihood, Confidence Intervals, Diagnostic Test, Sensitivity, Specificity
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Davis, Angela Elaine. "Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Sensitivity of a Continuous-Scale Diagnostic Test." 2007. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/1059686
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2012-01-26
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