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

Table 5.

The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 4 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 4)

Measure H L R F L R R g P S A g P S W g P S WT g P S MWS
Sensitivity 1 0.20, 0.70 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.10 0.00, 0.20
2 0.50, 0.90 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20
3 0.80, 1.00 0.10, 0.40 0.10, 0.40 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.30
4 0.90, 1.00 0.20, 0.50 0.20, 0.50 0.00, 0.30 0.00, 0.40 0.00, 0.40
Specificity 1 0.57, 0.82 0.95, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.90, 0.97
2 0.57, 0.80 0.98, 1.00 0.98, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.90, 1.00
3 0.57, 0.82 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.92, 1.00
4 0.55, 0.80 1.00, 1.00 1.00, 1.00 0.95, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.95, 1.00
PPV 1 0.11, 0.41 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 0.50
2 0.27, 0.53 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
3 0.33, 0.56 0.75, 1.00 0.75, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
4 0.36, 0.56 1.00, 1.00 1.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.33, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
NPV 1 0.76, 0.90 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.82 0.78, 0.83
2 0.84, 0.97 0.80, 0.85 0.80, 0.85 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83
3 0.92, 1.00 0.81, 0.87 0.82, 0.87 0.79, 0.85 0.80, 0.85 0.79, 0.85
4 0.96, 1.00 0.83, 0.89 0.83, 0.89 0.80, 0.85 0.80, 0.87 0.79, 0.87

H = factor by which the outlier distributions were shifted; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value