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

Table 6.

The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 5 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 5)

Measure S L R F L R R g P S A g P S W g P S WT g P S MWS
Sensitivity 1 0.40, 0.80 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.10 0.00, 0.20 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
Specificity 1 0.55, 0.78 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 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
PPV 1 0.20, 0.41 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 0.67 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 0.67
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
NPV 1 0.80, 0.93 0.80, 0.83 0.80, 0.83 0.79, 0.82 0.79, 0.83 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

S = amount of sides that the outliers were drawn from; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value