The 2x2 Matrix
Contingency, Confusion and the Metrics of Binary Classification
2nd Edition
Published on 8. January 2024
XVIII, 252 pages
978-3-031-47194-0 (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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Series
Edition
2nd ed. 2024
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVIII, 252 p. 55 illus.
File size
4,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-031-47194-0 (9783031471940)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-47194-0
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01/2024
2nd Edition
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E-Book
01/2022
Springer
€74.89
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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.
