mri {bamdit}

Diagnosis of lymph node metastasis with magnetic resonance imaging

Description

Diagnosis of lymph node metastasis with magnetic resonance imaging

Format

A matrix with 10 rows and 4 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:

tp

true positives

n1

number of patients with disease

fp

false positives

n2

number of patients without disease

Source

The data were obtained from

Scheidler J, Hricak H, Yu KK, Subak L, Segal MR. (1997) Radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer: a meta-analysis. The Journal of the American Medical Association; 278:1096-1101.

References

Verde P. E. (2010). Meta-analysis of diagnostic test data: A bivariate Bayesian modeling approach. Statistics in Medicine. 29, 3088-3102.