From sensitivity and specificity to confirmation and occurrence
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In this paper we show that some applications of a fuzzy methodology in medical diagnosis were ”inspired” by probabilistic approaches. Although probability theory and fuzzy set theory describe different facets of uncertainty. In this paper we trace the transformation of statistical measures of diagnostic accuracy to fuzzy occurrence, exclusion and confirmation relations, applied in several fuzzy computer-assisted systems. Applications of likelihood ratios, parallel and serial tests in fuzzy expert systems are also mentioned.
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