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Activity Number: 118
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #300311
Title: Bayesian Methods for Diagnostics: A Case Study of a Registration Trial
Author(s): Scott M. Berry*+ and Donald A. Berry
Companies: Berry Consultants and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 3145 Chaco Canyon Drive, College Station, TX, 77845,
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Abstract:

A case study of a registration study for a diagnostic is presented. An adaptive sample size approach is used to monitor the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic. Bayesian analyses of the "true" sensitivity and specificity are discussed when the gold standard is measured with error.

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