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Abstract
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.Keywords: Bayes’ theorem; Youden’s index; diagnostic test; log-likelihood ratio
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25658987 DOI: 10.3414/ME14-04-0003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Inf Med ISSN: 0026-1270 Impact factor: 2.176