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Variation of sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios and predictive values with disease prevalence by H. Brenner and O. Gefeller, Statistics in Medicine, 16, 981-991 (1997)

The sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios of binary diagnostic tests are often thought of as being independent of disease prevalence. Empirical studies, however, have frequently revealed substantial variation of these measures for the same diagnostic test in different populations. One reason for this discrepancy is related to the fact that only few diagnostic tests are inherently dicho...

Brenner On Distribution

This paper discusses one important component of the analysis of the decline of the profit rate in the recent decades in Robert Brenner’s Economics of Global Turbulence. Our single focus in this paper is Brenner’s implicit theory of distribution. It must be emphasized from the outset that the present discussion does not question the central role given by Brenner to the profit rate in his investi...

From Dostoyevsky to Brenner

Y. H. BRENNER (1881-1921) has long been associated with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His early letters express fascination with Russian novelists, poets, and critics (Brenner, 1967, pp. 218-226), and the figures of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky appear many times in both his fiction and non-fiction writing. Brenner's admiration for the depth of Dostoyevsky's psychological portr...

Proliferating Brenner tumour.

Case report A 62-year-old white female, nulligravida, 10 years post-menopause, was admitted to hospital because of a low abdominal mass discovered upon routine gynaecological examination. Physical examination on admission was unremarkable except for the presence of a movable mass located in the left lower abdomen. At exploratory laparotomy, a left ovarian tumour was discovered and total abdomin...

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