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Radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer: a meta-analysis.

Description

This data frame summarizes the tables 1-3 of Scheidler et al. 1997.

Format

A matrix with 46 rows and 7 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.

author

first author of the study.

year

publication date.

test

test method used in the study.

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.


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