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letter . 2020 Dec 23:ciaa1883. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1883
Optimal cycle thresholds for COVID-19 screening – ROC-based methods highlight between-study differences
Gerrit Hirschfeld
1,✉, Michael von Glischinski
2, Christian Thiele
1
Gerrit Hirschfeld
1
Faculty of Business and Health, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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Michael von Glischinski
2
Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str., Witten, Germany
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Christian Thiele
1
Faculty of Business and Health, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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1
Faculty of Business and Health, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
2
Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str., Witten, Germany
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Corresponding: Gerrit Hirschfeld, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business and Health, Interaktion 1, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany; E-Mail: gerrit.hirschfeld@fh-bielefeld.de
Received 2020 Dec 8.
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