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

Table 8.

The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 7 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 7)

Measure P(nmin) L R F L R R g P S A g P S W g P S WT g P S MWS
Sensitivity 0.5 0.40, 0.90 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20
1 0.30, 0.80 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20 0.00, 0.20
Specificity 0.5 0.62, 0.85 0.97, 1.00 0.97, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.90, 1.00
1 0.62, 0.85 0.98, 1.00 0.98, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00 0.92, 1.00
PPV 0.5 0.26, 0.56 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
1 0.21, 0.50 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00 0.00, 1.00
NPV 0.5 0.83, 0.97 0.80, 0.83 0.80, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83
1 0.81, 0.94 0.80, 0.83 0.80, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83 0.79, 0.83

P(nmin) = probability of outliers being small providers; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value