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. 2018 Jun 15;18:54. doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0510-1

Table 4.

The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 3 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 3)

Measure P(out) L R F L R R g P S A g P S W g P S WT g P S MWS
Sensitivity 0.03 0.20, 0.70 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.10
0.10 0.50, 0.90 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20
0.20 0.68, 1.00 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.30
Specificity 0.03 0.75, 0.95 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.95, 1.00
0.10 0.57, 0.80 0.98, 1.00 0.98, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.90, 1.00
0.20 0.45, 0.72 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.90, 1.00
PPV 0.03 0.18, 0.67 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
0.10 0.27, 0.53 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
0.20 0.26, 0.43 0.50, 1.00 0.50, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
NPV 0.03 0.80, 0.92 0.80, 0.83 0.80, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.82
0.10 0.84, 0.97 0.80, 0.85 0.80, 0.85 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83
0.20 0.86, 1.00 0.80, 0.85 0.80, 0.85 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.85

P(out) = percentage of true outliers; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value