Publications by authors named "S Lena Charlette"

In situations of diagnostic tests studies where the gold standard (GS) test is not absolutely perfect, validity measures of index tests vary in subgroups with varying disease prevalence. This is called reference standard misclassification. Although this is widely known, little is explained about the variations in the performance of index tests when the validity of the GS test itself varies with the time duration of illness.

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