
The 2x2 Matrix
Contingency, Confusion and the Metrics of Binary Classification
A. J. Larner(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 9. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 252 pages
978-3-031-47193-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book describes, extends, and illustrates the metrics of binary classification through worked examples.
Worked examples based on pragmatic test accuracy study data are used in chapters to illustrate relevance to day-to-day clinical practice. Readers will gain an understanding of sensitivity and specificity and predictive values along with many other parameters.
The contents are highly structured, and the use of worked examples facilitates understanding and interpretation.
This book is a resource for clinicians in any discipline who are involved in the performance or assessment of test accuracy studies and professionals in the disciplines of machine learning or informatics wishing to gain insight into clinical applications of 2x2 tables.
Worked examples based on pragmatic test accuracy study data are used in chapters to illustrate relevance to day-to-day clinical practice. Readers will gain an understanding of sensitivity and specificity and predictive values along with many other parameters.
The contents are highly structured, and the use of worked examples facilitates understanding and interpretation.
This book is a resource for clinicians in any discipline who are involved in the performance or assessment of test accuracy studies and professionals in the disciplines of machine learning or informatics wishing to gain insight into clinical applications of 2x2 tables.
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Edition
2nd ed. 2024
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
55 s/w Abbildungen
XVIII, 252 p. 55 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-47193-3 (9783031471933)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-47194-0
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Person
AJ Larner has been a consultant neurologist with an interest in cognitive disorders for over 20 years, affording him a wealth of experience in the use of 2x2 tables in the context of diagnostic test accuracy studies in clinical practice.
Content
Introduction.- Paired measures.- Paired complementary measures.- Unitary measures.- Number needed (reciprocal) measures and their combinations as likelihoods.- Quality (Q) measures.- Graphing methods.- Other measures, other tables.- Classification of metrics of binary classification.