Dear Michael,
Greetings from Southend on the east coast of England.
You might find the proportional odds ratio model (POR) of interest with
regard to your above posting.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mss4x/por.html
This is a web page from Virginia University School of Medicine. The authors
state “Furthermore, we provide code for converting ORs into other measures
of test performance like predictive values, post-test probabilities, and
likelihood ratios, under mild conditions”. [However, they do state that
prevalence and or sensitivity data is needed].
The full contents
http://www.people.virginia.edu/%7Emss4x/meta.html
This BMJ article might also be of interest.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7305/157
Hope the above is of some relevance to your posting.
Warm regards,
Badri
Dr.P.Badrinath MD, BS, M.Phil, MPH, PhD (Cantab), MFPH
Specialist Registrar in Public Health & Recognised Clinical Teacher,
Southend-on-Sea PCT & University of Cambridge, UK
http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi
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