This data frame summarizes the tables 1-3 of Scheidler et al. 1997.
A matrix with 46 rows and 7 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:
true positives.
number of patients with disease.
false positives.
number of patients without disease.
first author of the study.
publication date.
test method used in the study.
Verde P. E. (2010). Meta-analysis of diagnostic test data: A bivariate Bayesian modeling approach. Statistics in Medicine. 29, 3088-3102.