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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2022.35.3.435

How accurate are rapid diagnostic tests for covid-19?  

Yeo, In-Kwon (Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.35, no.3, 2022 , pp. 435-443 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, using Covid-19 diagnostic data provided by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), we examine the probability of confirmed cases and the probability of actually being confirmed when the rapid test is negative according to the sensitivity and specificity of the rapid diagnostic kit. When we know the conditional probability of confirmation given a positive test, we induce the relationship between sensitivity and specificity, and compute the actual sensitivity of the rapid diagnosis kit based on the data of KDCA.
Keywords
rapid diagnostic kit; sensitivity; specificity;
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