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. 2015 Mar 16;10(3):e0120967. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120967

Correction: Using ROC Curves to Choose Minimally Important Change Thresholds when Sensitivity and Specificity Are Valued Equally: The Forgotten Lesson of Pythagoras. Theoretical Considerations and an Example Application of Change in Health Status

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PMCID: PMC4361540  PMID: 25774511

There is an error in affiliation 2 for author Robert Froud. Affiliation 2 should be: Norges Helsehøyskole, Campus Kristiania, Prinsens Gate 7-9, Oslo, Norway.

In Table 1, the Sum of Squares x100% column is incorrect. Please see the corrected Table 1 here.

Table 1. Sensitivity and specificity data for the ROC curve in Fig. 3A.

Cut-point Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) |Farrar|x100% EMGO x100% Sum of Squares x100%
−11 100 0 100 100 100
−10 100 0.560 99.44 99.44 98.88
−9 100 2.250 97.75 97.75 95.55
−7 100 3.930 96.07 96.07 92.29
−5 100 5.620 94.38 94.38 89.08
−4 100 8.990 91.01 91.01 82.83
−3 100 10.67 89.33 89.33 79.80
−2 100 13.48 86.52 86.52 74.86
−1 98.44 19.66 78.78 81.90 64.57
0 98.44 26.97 71.47 74.59 53.36
1 98.44 38.76 59.68 62.80 37.53
2 95.31 47.75 47.56 56.94 27.52
3 87.50 58.99 28.51 53.51 18.38
4 76.56 66.29 10.27 57.15 16.86
5* 65.63 78.09 12.46 56.28 16.61
6 54.69 85.96 31.27 59.35 22.50
7 43.75 90.45 46.70 65.80 32.55
8 34.38 93.26 58.88 72.36 43.51
9 23.44 95.51 72.07 81.05 58.82
10 17.19 97.19 80.00 85.62 68.65
11 10.94 97.75 86.81 91.31 79.37
12 9.380 97.75 88.37 92.87 82.17
13 6.250 98.88 92.63 94.87 87.90
15 0 98.88 98.88 101.12 100.01

† Cut-point chosen by the EMGO method

‡ Cut-point chosen by the Farrar method

* Cut-point chosen by the sum of squares method

Reference

  • 1. Froud R, Abel G (2014) Using ROC Curves to Choose Minimally Important Change Thresholds when Sensitivity and Specificity Are Valued Equally: The Forgotten Lesson of Pythagoras. Theoretical Considerations and an Example Application of Change in Health Status. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114468 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114468 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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