Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 49, Issue 12 , Pages 1435-1439 , December 1996

Measures of differential diagnostic value of diagnostic procedures

  • Hermann Brenner

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Hermann Brenner, Department of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 43, D-89081 Ulm, Germany.

,Accepted 23 April 1996.

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 49, Issue 12 , Pages 1435-1439 , December 1996

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