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ESTIMATING PREVALENCE FROM THE RESULTS OF A SCREENING TEST
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This paper deals with some basis properties of screening tests. Such tests purport to separate people with disease from people without. Minimal criteria for such a process to be a test are discussed. Various ways of judging the goodness of a test are examined. A common use of tests is to estimate prevalence of disease; frequency of positive tests is shown to be a bad estimate, and the necessary adjustmants are given.
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- Authors
- ROGAN, W. J., & GLADEN, B.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (US)
- Corresponding author
- ROGAN, WALTER J.
- ORCID
- ROGAN, WALTER J.
- Venue
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1978-01
- Volume
- 107
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 71-76
- ISSN
- 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-6256
- OpenAlex
- W2271596670
- Cited by
- 1,001
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- FWCI
- 4.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Keywords
- screening test, disease prevalence estimation, diagnostic accuracy, positive predictive value, false positive rate
- MeSH terms
- Epidemiologic Methods, Female, Humans, Mass Screening, Morbidity, Population Surveillance
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