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DIAGT: Stata module to report summary statistics for diagnostic tests compared to true disease status

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Paul Seed () (King's College London)
Abstract

diagt displays various summary statistics for a diagnostic test, compared to patients' true disease status, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values, from a 2x2 table. diagti is the immediate version. #a #b #c #d are, respectively, the numbers of true positives (diseased subjects with correct positive test results), false negatives (disease, but negative test), false positives (no disease, but positive test) and true negatives (no disease, negative test). Version 2 of the software now includes an immediate version, diagti.

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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number S423401.

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Programming language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 6.0
Date of creation: 20 Dec 2001
Date of revision: 07 Nov 2006
Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s423401

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Keywords: summary statistics; diagnostics;

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