abpain {nonbinROC} | R Documentation |
Paediatric abdominal pain study
Description
A data frame giving a series of confidence scores for the pre-imaging and
post-imaging diagnoses of 60 patients suffering from acute abdominal pain.
Usage
data(abpain)
Format
This data frame contains the following 7 variables:
Group
- gold standard for diagnosing the patient with acute abdominal pain
(1 = surgical abdominal or urogenital condition, 2 = non-surgical abdominal condition and
3 = non-surgical urogenital condition)
Pre1
- pre-image confidence score for surgical abdominal or urogenital condition
Pre2
- pre-image confidence score for non-surgical abdominal condition
Pre3
- pre-image confidence score for non-surgical urogenital condition
Post1
- post-image confidence score for surgical abdominal or urogenital condition
Post2
- post-image confidence score for non-surgical abdominal condition
Post3
- post-image confidence score for non-surgical urogenital condition
Source
Obuchowski, N. A., Goske M. J. and Applegate, K. E. (2001) Assessing physicians' accuracy in
diagnosing paediatric patients with acute abdominal pain: measuring accuracy
for multiple diseases. Statistics in Medicine, 20, 3261-3278.
References
Obuchowski, N. A. (2005) Estimating and comparing diagnostic tests' accuracy when the gold
standard is not binary. Academic Radiology, 12, 1198-1204.
[Package
nonbinROC version 1.0.1
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