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. 2014 Feb 15;11:2. doi: 10.1186/1742-7622-11-2

Table 3.

Properties of the survey designs for various prior specifications

 
p = . 35
p = . 65
p ∈( . 35, . 65)
π () S ( p ) PPV NPV S ( p ) PPV NPV P grey PPV NPV
B(1,1)
0.650
0.991
0.692
0.350
0.692
0.991
0.300
0.300
0.300
B(9.6, 8.7)
0.937
0.995
0.139
0.143
0.243
0.986
0.794
0.752
0.848
B(4.3, 2.1)
0.957
0.998
0.213
0.593
0.728
0.956
0.363
0.270
0.743
B(19.4, 9.3)
1.000
1.000
0.002
0.634
0.688
0.832
0.366
0.312
0.831
B(2.5, 1.2) 0.908 0.997 0.381 0.592 0.766 0.972 0.316 0.231 0.592

The table quantities with respect to p* are defined as: S(p*) =P(p >p*), PPV =P(p >p* | X i > 9) and NPV =P(p <p* |X i ≤ 9). For the grey region, P grey =P(p ∈{.35,.65 }), PPV =P(p l <p <p u | X i > 9) and NPV =P(p l <p <p u | X i ≤ 9).