Estimates of diagnostic accuracy efficacy: how well can this test perform the classification task?

Can Assoc Radiol J

Department of Radiology, Hôpital Saint-Luc, 1058 St-Denis St., Montréal, QC H2X 3J4.

Published: April 2003

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