Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain. 2016 Apr 8;17(6):637–641. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2016.01.476

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Use of Bayes’ theorem to calculate (A) PPV and (B) NPV for chronic pain biomarkers. Note that prevalence directly modulates PPV and NPV, with PPV tending to increase as prevalence increases, and NPV decreasing as prevalence increases.