Guys right now I am doing Epidemiology from Kaplan and while I was watching kaplan videos and going through notes, I was stuck with these doubts. Please anyone take some time and answer
1) The definition of Sensitivity in Kaplan notes is as follows:
"Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as diseased by the screening test". if this is the case then the formula should be True positives/ True positives + False positives right. "Identified as diseased by the screening test" means all the cases that came positive by the test should go under denominator right? The actual definition should be "It is the ability of a test to identify the diseased correctly from the total diseased population right?
2) Same with the definition of Specificity
Proportion of truly nondiseased persons who are identified as nondiseased by the screening test. Here if this is the definition the denominator should be True negatives + False negatives and the formula should be True negatives/ True negatives + False negatives. "who are identified as nondiseased by the screening test means True negatives + False negatives right?
3)
Probability of test coming positive given that the patient having the disease is Sensitivity.
Probability of test coming negative given that patient not having the disease is specificity
Probability of patient having the disease if the test comes +ve is Positive predictive value
Probability of patient not having the disease if the test comes -ve is Negative predictive value
Probability of the test coming -ve given that the patient having the disease is False Negative Rate = 1 - sensitivity = False Negatives/ False negatives + True Positives (Total Diseased)
Probability of test coming +ve given that the patient not having the disease is False Positive Rate = 1 - Specificity = False Positives/ False Positives + True Negatives (Total Healthy)
I can decipher this far. Please correct me if I am wrong in any of the above statements
My question here is
What is the formula for "Probability of patient having the disease if the test comes negative" ? Can we do this simply by subtracting Negative predictive value from 1.
What is the formula for "Probability of patient not having the disease if the test comes positive"? Can we do this by subtracting Positive predictive value from 1?
Please guys tell me How to calculate the above two.
Thanx
1) The definition of Sensitivity in Kaplan notes is as follows:
"Sensitivity is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as diseased by the screening test". if this is the case then the formula should be True positives/ True positives + False positives right. "Identified as diseased by the screening test" means all the cases that came positive by the test should go under denominator right? The actual definition should be "It is the ability of a test to identify the diseased correctly from the total diseased population right?
2) Same with the definition of Specificity
Proportion of truly nondiseased persons who are identified as nondiseased by the screening test. Here if this is the definition the denominator should be True negatives + False negatives and the formula should be True negatives/ True negatives + False negatives. "who are identified as nondiseased by the screening test means True negatives + False negatives right?
3)
Probability of test coming positive given that the patient having the disease is Sensitivity.
Probability of test coming negative given that patient not having the disease is specificity
Probability of patient having the disease if the test comes +ve is Positive predictive value
Probability of patient not having the disease if the test comes -ve is Negative predictive value
Probability of the test coming -ve given that the patient having the disease is False Negative Rate = 1 - sensitivity = False Negatives/ False negatives + True Positives (Total Diseased)
Probability of test coming +ve given that the patient not having the disease is False Positive Rate = 1 - Specificity = False Positives/ False Positives + True Negatives (Total Healthy)
I can decipher this far. Please correct me if I am wrong in any of the above statements
My question here is
What is the formula for "Probability of patient having the disease if the test comes negative" ? Can we do this simply by subtracting Negative predictive value from 1.
What is the formula for "Probability of patient not having the disease if the test comes positive"? Can we do this by subtracting Positive predictive value from 1?
Please guys tell me How to calculate the above two.
Thanx