Meta-analysis to compare two diagnostic tests to a common gold standard - A new approach using quadrivariate copulas

Introduction: Meta-analysis of diagnostic studies is still a rapidly developing area of biostatistical research. Especially, there is an increasing interest in methods to compare different tests to a common gold standard [ref:1]. Restricting to the case of two diagnostic tests, in these meta-analyses[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
GMDS 2014; 59. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS)