Sensitivity / specificity / likelihood ratio / ROC
HIGH-YIELD
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Teaching point
Specificity = proportion of truly disease-FREE who test negative (90% specificity -> 90% of healthy people test negative). 100% specificity = no false positives (rules a disease IN when positive). Sensitivity = proportion of diseased detected. Likelihood ratio+ = sensitivity / (1 - specificity).
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