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

Table 7.

The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 6 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 6)

Measure min(nk) L R F L R R g P S A g P S W g P S WT g P S MWS
Sensitivity 500 0.40, 0.90 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20
1000 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 500 0.62, 0.85 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.90, 1.00
1000 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 500 0.26, 0.56 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
1000 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 500 0.83, 0.97 0.80, 0.83 0.80, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83
1000 0.84, 0.97 0.80, 0.85 0.80, 0.85 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83

min(nk) = minimum provider volume; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value