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Self-Reported and Measured BMI in Ireland: Should We Adjust the Obesity Thresholds?

Madden, David - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2013

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset of 2007 we analyse the relationship between self-reported and measured BMI. We find that self-reported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the traditional threshold of 30 should be adjusted downwards. We outline a...

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Screening in multistage contests

Khorasani, Sina; Nittala, Lakshminarayana; Krishnan, Vish V. - In: Manufacturing & service operations management : M & SOM 25 (2023) 6, pp. 2249-2267

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Risk of Error and the Kappa Coefficient of a Binary Diagnostic Test in the Presence of Partial Verification

Nofuentes, J. A. Roldan; Castillo, J. D. Luna Del - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 8, pp. 887-898

The accuracy of a binary diagnostic test is usually measured in terms of its sensitivity and its specificity, or …

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Two-graph receiver operating characteristic

Reichenheim, Michael E. - In: Stata Journal 2 (2002) 4, pp. 351-357

The command roctg allows visualizing sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) curves according to the range of values of a …

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A tutorial about diagnostic methodology with dementia data

Shanmugam, Ramalingam - In: International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and … 1 (2009) 4, pp. 385-406

The purpose of the diagnostic methodology is to discuss, estimate and interpret medical parameters such as sensitivity …, specificity and prevalence of a diseased population in the chosen community for the research study. However, this statistical …

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Maximizing proportions of correct classifications in binary logistic regression

Hadjicostas, Petros - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 33 (2006) 6, pp. 629-640

addition, we give results that allow us to get all cut-off points that maximize a weighted combination of specificity and … sensitivity. In addition, we discuss measures of association between predicted probabilities and observed responses, and, in …

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Breast Cancer Diagnosis from Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Data: A Comparative Evaluation

Hand, David - In: Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 (2008) 2, pp. 15-15

The performance results of a wide range of different classifiers applied to proteomic mass spectra data, in a blind comparative assessment organised by Bart Mertens, are reviewed. The different approaches are summarised, issues of how to evaluate and compare the predictions are described, and...

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Self-Reported and Measured BMI in Ireland: Should We Adjust the Obesity Thresholds?

Madden, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset of 2007 we analyse the relationship between self-reported and measured BMI. We find that selfreported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the traditional threshold of 30 should be adjusted downwards. We outline a number...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631745

High-throughput DNA methylation datasets for evaluating false discovery rate methodologies

Asomaning, N.; Archer, K.J. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1748-1756

reporting the sensitivity, specificity, and observed FDR. These datasets are useful for characterizing the performance of …

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Comparison of various statistical methods for detecting disease outbreaks

Choi, Byeong; Kim, Ho; Go, Un; Jeong, Jong-Hyeon; Lee, Jae - In: Computational Statistics 25 (2010) 4, pp. 603-617

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