RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
When a diagnostic test returns a positive result, the probability that the patient truly has the condition depends on how common the condition is in the population being tested. The prevalence threshold marks the point on that relationship below which a positive result stops being trustwo...
J. Balayla· Journal of Evaluation In Cli...· 0 citations
Human reproduction presents features that appear inefficient in isolation: gamete overproduction, mechanically demanding birth, neonatal altriciality, lactational suppression of fertility, reproductive cessation, prolonged post-reproductive survival, and extensive care by individuals other than parents. Evolutionary ac...
Cayla Karls, Louna Bohbot, E. M. Dahdouh et al.· American Journal of Biologic...· 0 citations
RATIONALE
Post-test probabilities are reported as precise numbers even though the pretest probabilities they depend on are uncertain and, for an individual patient, unobservable. Clinicians need a way to tell the mathematical question-how strongly is a change in the pretest estimate carried through to the post-test pro...
Maya Nadler, J. Balayla· Journal of Evaluation In Cli...· 0 citations
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