Applying a statistical PTB detection procedure to complement the gold standard

• Main Authors: Mohd. Noor, Norliza, Yunus, Ashari, Syed Abu Bakar, Syed Abdul Rahman, Hussin, Amran, Mohd. Rijal, Omar
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2010
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/22870/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.10.002

This paper investigates a novel statistical discrimination procedure to detect PTB when the gold standard requirement is taken into consideration. Archived data were used to establish two groups of patients which are the control and test group. The control group was used to develop the statistical d...