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. 2020 Apr 23;13:127–140. doi: 10.2147/PGPM.S198225

Table 1.

Glossary of Relevant Terms in Precision Psychiatry

Term Definition
Accuracy Metric used to evaluate the classification performance of a machine learning model defined by the ratio of the number of correct predictions over the total number of predictions.
Precision Ability of an algorithm to return substantially more relevant results than irrelevant ones
AUC Measure of how well a binary classifier system can distinguish between two groups
Sensitivity Proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as such
Specificity Proportion of actual negatives that are correctly identified as such
PPV Proportions of positive results in statistics that are true positive
NPV Proportions of negative results in statistics and true negative results
Statistical significance Expresses whether an observed difference is more likely to be a real difference rather than a chance occurrence
Clinical significance Expresses the impact and importance of a finding for a patient population

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.