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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 Jun 21;34(23):3116–3132. doi: 10.1002/sim.6546

Table (ii).

Varying levels of disease prevalence examined in simulation studies and figures based upon an ordinal classification scale with C=5 categories.

Percentage (%) of classifications in each category
Disease Prevalence Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5
Very low 80% 10% 3.4% 3.3% 3.3%
Moderately low 50% 26% 16% 6% 2%
Equal 20% 20% 20% 20% 20%
Moderately High 2% 6% 16% 26% 50%
Very High 3.3% 3.3% 3.4% 10% 80%