What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what’s a ROC if It’s not a type of bird?

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What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what’s a ROC if It’s not a type of bird?

Higgins, M.F.; Macken, Alan P.; Cullen, Walter; Saunders, Jean; Dunne, Colum P.; O'Gorman, Clodagh

Date

2013

Abstract

What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what’s a ROC if It’s not a type of bird?

Description

peer-reviewed

Publisher

Irish Medical Organisation (IMO)

Citation

Irish Medical Journal;supplement, 106(2), pp. 11-12

Collections

School of Medicine
4i - Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity

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Keywords

sensitivity, specifiicity

ULRR Identifiers

https://hdl.handle.net/10344/3013
https://doi.org/10.34961/9951