Diaz, Mireya - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 83 (2015) C, pp. 82-90
The bivariate random effects model has been advocated for the meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy despite scarce … studies, the number of individuals per study, diagnostic accuracy values, heterogeneity, correlation, and disease prevalence … optimization. Bias, accuracy, and coverage probability were evaluated as performance metrics among 1000 replicates in 272 different …