THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF COMPOSITE INDICES IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBER OF PARTITIONS OF THEIR COMPONENTS: A SIMULATION STUDY

G. Kourlaba (Greece), D. Panagiotakos (Greece) and V. Stavrinos (Greece)

Received May 10, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: sensitivity, specificity, index.