Table 3.

Marginal prior and posterior medians and lower and upper limits of the posterior equally tailed 95 % credible interval for parameters of diagnostic tests

Variables	Prior information	Both tests combined (independence)		Both tests combined (dependent)
		HRV test	Ewing’s test	HRV test	Ewing’s test
Prevalence	0.300 (0.120–0.480)	0.429 (0.278–0.59)		0.403 (0.222–0.591)
Sensitivity	0.850 (0.720–0.980)	0.837 (0.681–0.948)	0.878 (0.748–0.962)	0.821 (0.626–0.95)	0.852 (0.698–0.956)
Specificity	0.850 (0.720–0.980)	0.837 (0.696–0.941)	0.745 (0.591–0.891)	0.797 (0.636–0.927)	0.695 (0.529–0.888)
Accuracy	0.850 (0.720–0.980)	0.835 (0.727–0.919)	0.810 (0.705–0.9)	0.807 (0.666–0.911)	0.774 (0.647–0.894)
PPV	0.708 (0.260–0.978)	0.796 (0.582–0.934)	0.720 (0.497–0.902)	0.733 (0.451–0.916)	0.651 (0.375–0.901)
NPV	0.923 (0.950–0.982)	0.874 (0.69–0.967)	0.892 (0.743–0.97)	0.873 (0.639–0.972)	0.876 (0.71–0.970)
ρP				0.335 (0.017–0.838)
ρN				0.344 (0.016–0.838)

Date represent to be mean and 95 % CI, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value, ρ _P correlation coefficients of sensitivities of two tests, ρ _N correlation coefficients of specificities of two tests