A comparison of bivariate, multivariate random-effects, and Poisson correlated gamma-frailty models to meta-analyze individual patient data of ordinal scale diagnostic tests

• Main Authors: Gabrielle Simoneau, Brooke Levis, Pim Cuijpers, John P.A. Ioannidis, Scott B. Patten, Ian Shrier, Charles H. Bombardier, Flavia de Lima Osório, Jesse R. Fann, Dwenda Gjerdingen, Femke Lamers, Manote Lotrakul, Bernd Löwe, Juwita Shaaban, Lesley Stafford, Henk C.P.M. van Weert, Mary A. Whooley, Karin A. Wittkampf, Albert S. Yeung, Brett D. Thombs, Andrea Benedetti
• Other Authors: McGill University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Decision Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/42415
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Individual patient data (IPD) meta-analyses are increasingly common in the literature. In the context of estimating the diagnostic accuracy of ordinal or semi-continuous scale tests, sensitivity and specificity are often reported for a given th...