Youden's Index and the Weight of Evidence Revisited.
نویسنده
چکیده
A correspondence between Youden's index for rating diagnostic tests and the log-likelihood ratio of a positive test outcome is illustrated by data calculated from two previously-published studies of binary tests.
منابع مشابه
Youden's index and the weight of evidence.
By means of Shannon's relationship between information and probability, Youden's index for rating diagnostic tests is shown to be a probability-scale analogue of the log-likelihood ratio of a positive test outcome.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Methods of information in medicine
دوره 54 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015