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A note on Youden's J and its cost ratio
BACKGROUND: The Youden index, the sum of sensitivity and specificity minus one, is an index used for setting optimal thresholds on medical tests. DISCUSSION: When using this index, one implicitly uses decision theory with a ratio of misclassification costs which is equal to one minus the prevalence...
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BioMed Central
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2959030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20920288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-10-89 |