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?

M. F. Higgins; A. P. Macken; W. Cullen; J. Saunders; C. Dunne; C. S. O'Gorman

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?

M. F. Higgins
, A. P. Macken
, W. Cullen
, J. Saunders
, C. Dunne
, C. S. O'Gorman

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11-13
Number of pages	3
Journal	Irish Medical Journal
Volume	106
Issue number	2 Suppl
Publication status	Published - Feb 2013

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