Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine

This is the second edition of the book, entitled "Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine". This book provides a comprehensive account of statistical methods for design and analysis of diagnostic studies, including sample size calculation, estimation of the accuracy of a diagnostic test, comparison of accuracies of competing tests, and regression analysis of diagnostic accuracy data and discussing recently developed methods for correction of verification bias and imperfect reference bias, methods for analysis of clustered data, and meta-analysis methods. The first edition of this book was published in 2002 by Wiley & Sons and can also be purchased at Amazon.com . The first edition has also been translated into Chinese by Prof. Yu and was published in 2005 by People's Medical Publishing House