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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2014 May 13;33(22):3946–3959. doi: 10.1002/sim.6195

Table 5.

Maximum acceptable testing harms and test tradeoffs over a range of risk thresholds.

Maximum acceptable
testing harm
Risk
threshold
Estimate Lower
bound
Test tradeoff
Model 1 versus Chance 0.28 0.097 0.091 10
0.32 0.072 0.065 14
0.36 0.05 0.042 20
0.41 0.034 0.026 29
0.45 0.02 0.014 50
Model 2 versus Model 1 0.28 0.008 0.003 124
0.32 0.011 0.006 88
0.36 0.015 0.008 68
0.41 0.014 0.008 69
0.45 0.013 0.006 74