Improved accuracy when screening for human growth disorders by likelihood ratios
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Improved accuracy when screening for human growth disorders by likelihood ratios.
The standard deviation score (SDS) is a powerful tool for screening for growth-related problems. However, referral rules of the type 'if SDS(Y)<d, then refer' (for some constant d) are not optimal for answering the question: 'Does this child with measurement Y belong to the reference or to the diseased population?'. If the growth standard for the diseased population is known, then the likelihoo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistics in Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0277-6715,1097-0258
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3031