Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A multinomial truncated D-vine copula mixed model for the joint
  meta-analysis of multiple diagnostic tests   There is an extensive literature on methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic
studies, but it mainly focuses on a single test. However, the better
understanding of a particular disease has led to the development of multiple
tests. A multinomial generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) is recently proposed
for the joint meta-analysis of studies comparing multiple tests. We propose a
novel model for the joint meta-analysis of multiple tests, which assumes
independent multinomial distributions for the counts of each combination of
test results in diseased and non-diseased patients, conditional on the latent
vector of probabilities of each combination of test results in diseased and
non-diseased patients. For the random effects distribution of the latent
proportions, we employ a truncated drawable vine copula that can cover flexible
dependence structures. The proposed model includes the multinomial GLMM as a
special case, but can also operate on the original scale of the latent
proportions. Our methodology is demonstrated with a simulation study and using
a meta-analysis of screening for Down syndrome with two tests: shortened
humerus and shortened femur. The comparison of our method with the multinomial
GLMM yields findings in the real data meta-analysis that change the current
conclusions.

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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom