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. 2022 Mar;15(1):6-9.
doi: 10.1111/jebm.12467.

Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies

Luis Furuya-Kanamori  1 , Eletherios Meletis  2 , Chang Xu  3 , Polychronis Kostoulas  2 , Suhail Ar Doi  3
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Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies

Luis Furuya-Kanamori et al. J Evid Based Med. 2022 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: Bayesian; diagnosis; latent class; split component synthesis.

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FIGURE 1
Performance comparison of the diagnostic odds ratio (triangle), sensitivity (circle), and specificity (square) between the split component synthesis method (blue) and the bivariate model (red) at different levels of heterogeneity
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