A Comment on Gefeller and Brenner's Chance-Corrected Sensitivity and Specificity

Methods Inf Med 1998; 37(03): 307-308
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634525

Commentary

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J. Jamart

¹Center of Biostatistics and Medical Documentation, Catholic University of Louvain, Mont-Godinne Hospital, Yvoir, Belgium

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