Open AccessA Bayesian Analysis With Informative Prior on Disease Prevalence for Predicting Missing Values Due To Verification Bias
Author(s) -
Abdollah Hajivandi,
H R Ghafarian Shirazi,
Seyed Hassan Saadat,
Mohammad Chehrazi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2018.296
Subject(s) - hysteroscopy , medicine , bayesian probability , statistics , markov chain monte carlo , population , surgery , mathematics , environmental health
Verification bias is one of the major problems encountered in diagnostic accuracy studies. It occurs when a standard test performed on a non-representative subsample of subjects which have undergone the diagnostic test. In this study we extend a Bayesian model to correct this bias.
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