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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2013.26.1.015

The Effect Measures for Diagnostic Test: A Graph Approach  

Cho, Tae-Kyoung (Department of Information & Statistics Science, Dongguk University)
Son, Chang-Kyoon (Department of Information & Statistics Science, Dongguk University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.26, no.1, 2013 , pp. 15-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
In clinical study or epidemic research, the $2{\times}2$ frequency table is useful to present a summary statistic The values of four cells in $2{\times}2$ table use to calculate the effect measures such as risk ratio, relative ris ratio or odds ratio. In this paper, we suggest that the improved visualization method using a radar diagram supported by MS-office Excel from the $2{\times}2$ frequency table is able to understand and draw easily betweendiagnosti measures such as sensitivity, specificity, predictivity, and likelihood ratio. We use some numerical example in order to show the usage of the proposed method.
Keywords
Diagnostic test; sensitivity; specificity; predictivity; likelihood ratio;
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