ascus {CopulaDTA}

R Documentation

ASCUS dataset

Description

Arbyn et al. (2013) performed a Cochrane review on the accuracy of human papillomavirus testing (HC2)and repeat cytology (RepC) to triage of women with an equivocal Pap smear to diagnose cervical precancer.

Usage

data(ascus)

Format

A data frame of 20 observations and six variables:

StudyID

Study identifier

Test

Type of diagnostic test

TP

Number of true positives

FN

number of false negatives

TN

number of true negatives

FP

number of false positives

References

Arbyn M, Roelens J, Simoens C, Buntinx F, Paraskevaidis E, Martin-Hirsch PPL, Prendiville W (2013). Human Papillomavirus Testing Versus Repeat Cytology for Triage of Minor Cytological Cervical Lesions." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, pp. 31-201.

Nyaga VN, Arbyn M, Aerts M (2017). CopulaDTA: An R Package for Copula-Based Beta-Binomial Models for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies in a Bayesian Framework. Journal of Statistical Software, 82(1), 1-27. doi:10.18637/jss.v082.c01

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