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Likelihood ratio as an index of the diagnostic usefulness of ultrasonic information in gastrointestinal disease.
Author(s) -
Ciatti S,
Fanfani S
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.1984.3.5.209
Subject(s) - medicine , statistic , index (typography) , disease , radiology , likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing , statistics , pathology , diagnostic accuracy , mathematics , world wide web , computer science
The authors describe the utilization of the log‐likelihood statistic as a means to establish the impact of diagnostic sonography on gastroenteric pathology. The statistical method does not require a final diagnosis, but gives an evaluation of how the clinician's opinion is changed or not by the sonographic diagnosis.