Diagnostic tests for the physical sciences: A brief review

A Brief Review of Tests for Normality

In statistics it is conventional to assume that the observations are normal. The entire statistical framework is grounded on this assumption and if this assumption is violated the inference breaks down. For this reason it is essential to check or test this assumption before any statistical analysis of data. In this paper we provide a brief review of commonly used tests for normality. We present...

Review: physical diagnostic tests have low diagnostic accuracy for meniscal lesions of the knee.

A systematic review of the diagnostic performance of orthopedic physical examination tests of the hip

BACKGROUND Previous reviews of the diagnostic performances of physical tests of the hip in orthopedics have drawn limited conclusions because of the low to moderate quality of primary studies published in the literature. This systematic review aims to build on these reviews by assessing a broad range of hip pathologies, and employing a more selective approach to the inclusion of studies in orde...

A review on the methodology for assessing diagnostic tests.

Evaluation of diagnostic tests by the following principles are reviewed: error rates, scores based on posterior probabilities, and the excess loss considered in a decision theoretic context. Error rates or the complementary non-error rates, specificity and sensitivity, are simple measures which provide a rough indication of the discriminative value. In clinical practice, where a test serves as ...

Diagnostic accuracy of scapular physical examination tests for shoulder disorders: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To systematically review and critique the evidence regarding the diagnostic accuracy of physical examination tests for the scapula in patients with shoulder disorders. METHODS A systematic, computerised literature search of PubMED, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library databases (from database inception through January 2012) using keywords related to diagnostic accuracy of physica...