Bookmark and Share

Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[no subject]



Thanks for your help, Carole


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Carole,
>
> You say you want the "difference in sensitivity/specificity".  What are you calculating the difference *between*?  In your -metandi- command all I see is the components for computing a single sensitivity and specificity, not for comparing the sensitivity/specificity between two different modalities or two different thresholds.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carole Lunny
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: P-values for the difference in sensitivity in metandi
>
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I am using metandi to get results of a diagnostic accuracy review I am
> doing. I am using the HSROC model, and would like to know how to get
> the P-values for the difference in sensitivity/specificity in metandi
> (or another stata command).
>
> These are the results from metandi:
>
> . metandi tp fp fn tn
>
> Refining starting values:
>
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -233.08848
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood =  -230.8551
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood = -230.79615
> Iteration 3:   log likelihood = -230.74257
>
> Performing gradient-based optimization:
>
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -230.74257
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood = -230.74239
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood = -230.74239
>
> Meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy
>
> Log likelihood   = -230.74239                     Number of studies =       31
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              |      Coef.   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> Bivariate    |
>   E(logitSe) |   1.552802   .1604973                      1.238233    1.867371
>   E(logitSp) |   2.490983   .1836023                      2.131129    2.850837
> Var(logitSe) |   .6461271   .2113009                      .3403707    1.226546
> Var(logitSp) |   .8975503   .2730492                      .4944354    1.629326
> Corr(logits) |   .1192086    .209656                     -.2886231    .4904251
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> HSROC        |
>       Lambda |   3.980269   .2660604                        3.4588    4.501737
>        Theta |  -.3043524   .2406498                     -.7760173    .1673124
>         beta |   .1643365   .2221673     0.74   0.459    -.2711034    .5997763
>      s2alpha |   1.704627   .5034386                      .9555173    3.041027
>      s2theta |   .3353756   .1085868                      .1778002     .632602
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> Summary pt.  |
>           Se |   .8253181   .0231386                      .7752564    .8661538
>           Sp |   .9235073     .01297                      .8938922    .9453619
>          DOR |   57.04186   14.58478                      34.55841    94.15288
>          LR+ |    10.7895   1.883955                      7.662542    15.19251
>          LR- |   .1891505   .0254589                      .1452912    .2462498
>        1/LR- |   5.286795   .7115817                      4.060917    6.882731
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Covariance between estimates of E(logitSe) & E(logitSp)   .0029529
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Carole
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/


© Copyright 1996–2018 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   Site index