telomerase {CopulaREMADA}

The telomerase data

Description

In Glas et al. (2003) the telomerase marker for the diagnosis of bladder cancer is evaluated using 10 studies. The interest was to define if this non-invasive and cheap marker could replace the standard of cystoscopy or histopathology.

Usage

data(telomerase)

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 4 variables.

TP

the number of true positives

FN

the number of false negatives

FP

the number of false positives

TN

the number of true negatives

References

Glas A.S., Roos D., Deutekom M., Zwinderman A.H., Bossuyt P.M., Kurth K.H. (2003) Tumor markers in the diagnosis of primary bladder cancer. A systematic review. Journal of Urology, 169(6), 1975–82.