ABSTRACT
The general problem of differential diagnosis in clinical medicine has been well illustrated and motivated in previous chapters. In Chapter 1 data sets such as Conn’s syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome, haemophilia and non-toxic goitre were introduced. In Chapters 2-4 aspects and characteristics of the probability distribution of such data were discussed. In order to retain the logical sequence of the development of statistical concepts in clinical medicine through experience, observation and measurement which are fundamental to the data collection process, in this chapter we shall concentrate on what may be termed the standard statistical differential diagnosis problem.
