What method was used to assess the diagnostic accuracy data from two other studies included in the clinical review?
Ordinal logistic regression was used to assess the diagnostic accuracy data from two other studies included in the clinical review. This method was thought to be the most suitable as it fits a distribution to the diagnostic accuracy data to ensure that the sensitivity and specificity values maintained their order according to the threshold level for each run. This method assumes that the model is predicting values that the data would show if you had a greater sample size.