Usage of Latent Class Analysis in Diagnostic Microbiology in the Absence of Gold Standard Test
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The evaluation of performance of various tests diagnostic tests in the absence of gold standard is an important problem. Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical analysis method known for many years, especially in the absence of a gold standard for evaluation of diagnostic tests so that LCA has found its wide application area. During the last decade, LCA method has widely used in for determining sensivity and specifity of different microbiological tests. It has investigated in the diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis, mycobacterium bovis, human papilloma virus, bordetella pertussis, influenza viruses, hepatitis E virus (HEV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and other various viral infections. Researchers have compared several diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of different pathogens with LCA. We aimed to evaluate performance of latent class analysis method used microbiological diagnosis in various diseases in several researches. When we took into account all of these tests’ results, we suppose that LCA is a good statistical analysis method to assess different test performances in the absence of gold standard.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Diagnostic tests,infection,nucleic acid amplification techniques
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