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. 2014 Aug 8;14:67. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-14-67

Table 7.

Ratios between weights of false negatives versus weights of false positives by four different methods¶

  India (n = 77) Pakistan (n = 84) Bangladesh (n = 81) All countries (n = 242) Threshold all countries
Intuitive WFN/Intuitive WFP
8 (4.5-9)
2 (1.4-3.3)
1.4 (0.97-2.54)
3 (1.4-5)
25 (16.7-41.7)
Calculated WFN/calculated WFP based on literature data without regret
12 (11-13)
19 (13-26)
22 (18-52)
16 (12-26)
5.9 (3.7-7.7)_
Calculated WFN/calculated WFP based on intuitive estimates without regret
105 (54-141)
17 (4.6-34)
21 (8-56)
33 (11-98)
2.9 (1-8.3)
Calculated WFN/calculated WFP based on intuitive estimates with regret 131.62 (72.89-282.08) 19.04 (6.05-48.97) 28.42 (7.84-76.88) 48.69 (12.28-132.0) 2.0 (0.75-7.5)

¶Difference between ratios: p < 0.001.