ebdt_you: Calculate Youden index

In ebdt: Evaluation of Binary Diagnostic Test

Calculate Youden index

Description

This function calculate Youden index estimator, their standard error estimated and a confidence interval in a traverse or Cross-sectional study.

Usage

ebdt_you(s1, r1, s0, r0, conflev = 0.95, digits = 3, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

s1	Non-negative numeric. TP - True positive (cases correctly classified as +).
r1	Non-negative numeric. FP - False positives (controls classified as +).
s0	Non-negative numeric. FN - False negatives (cases classified as -).
r0	Non-negative numeric. TN - True negatives (controls classified as -).
conflev	Confidence level (0,1). Default 0.95.
digits	Integer. Number of decimal places. Default 3.
verbose	Logical. If TRUE, it prints the execution time. Default is TRUE.

Details

Evaluating of Binary Diagnostic Test (EBDT)

This function calculates the Youden Index, standard error & Agresti-Coull CI

- Corrección Haldane–Anscombe *in pairs* if there are zeros: (s1,s0) and/or (r1,r0), +0.5 is added to both cells of the pair. - EE(J) is calculated as: sqrt( Se*(1-Se)/n_cases + Sp*(1-Sp)/n_ctrls ), valid under independence between cases and controls (common in diagnostic studies). - IC is constructed with normal approximation: J ± z * EE(J).

Value

list with: - YoudenIndex: Youden Index estimation J = Se + Sp - 1 - StdError: standard error of J by delta method assuming independence of cases and controls - CI: approximate normal confidence interval for J

References

Agresti, A., (2002). Categorical Data Analysis. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Agresti, A., Coull, B.A., (1998). Approximate is better than ‘exact’ for interval estimation of binomial proportions. The American Statistician, 52:119 – 126.

Montero-Alonso, M.Á.(2010). Intervalos de confianza y contrastes de hipótesis para parámetros de tests diagnósticos binarios, http://hdl.handle.net/10481/4879

Pepe, M. S. (2003). The statistical evaluation of medical tests for classification and prediction. Oxford University Press.

Youden, W.J., (1950). Index for rating diagnostic tests. Cancer, 3: 32 – 35.

Zhou, X.-H., Obuchowski, N. A., y McClish, D. K. (2011). Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine (2.ª ed.). John Wiley & Sons.

Examples

ebdt_you(40, 5, 10, 45)

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