• Estimação bayesiana para medidas de desempenho de testes diagnósticos 

      Pinho, Eloísa Moralles do (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estatística - PPGEs, , 05/01/2006)
      In the medical area, diagnostic tests are used to classify a patient as positive or negative with respect to a given disease. There are simple and more elaborate tests, each one with a speci9ed rate of misclassi9cation. To ...
    • Inferência bayesiana para teste disgnóstico. 

      Saraiva, Karolina Felcar (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estatística - PPGEs, , 05/03/2004)
      The simpler screening tests applied to detect disease instead of the more elaborated, usually result in the risk of incorrect diagnostic. However, these tests are only useful when the risks of misclassifications are known ...