Eeckhoudt, Louis R.; Lebrun, Thérèse C.; Sailly, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 18 (1984) 10, pp. 873-880
In medical literature the value of diagnostic tests is most of the time appreciated from their statistical properties (sensitivity and specificity) and from the prevalence of a given disease. In this paper we also take into account economic parameters such as the benefits and costs of the...