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This chapter introduces several notions fundamental for disease or device testing. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of a test are measures of the performance of a diagnostic test and are intimately connected with probability calculations (estimations) and Bayes’ rule.
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Vidakovic, B. (2011). Sensitivity, Specificity, and Relatives. In: Statistics for Bioengineering Sciences. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0394-4_4
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