Simplifying likelihood ratios

By S. McGee. Journal of general internal medicine, 2002

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The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS): A rebuttal to critics (2006, neutral): “The interested reader will find more detailed descriptions elsewhere (Chu, 1999; Koch, Capurso, & Llewelyn, 1995; Kraemer, 1992; McGee, 2000; Sackett, Haynes, & Tugwell, 1991; Schmitz, Kruse, & Tress, 2000; Zhou, Obuchowski, & McClish, 2002).”
Detecting and monitoring depression with a two-item questionnaire (PHQ-2). (2005, background): “The likelihood ratio of any clinical finding is the probability of that finding in patients with disease divided by the probability of the same finding in patients without disease [38].”
Dynamic and explainable machine learning prediction of mortality in patients in the intensive care unit: a retrospective study of high-frequency data in electronic patient records. (2020, positive): “27 The positive likelihood ratio is calculated as and the negative likelihood ratio as Bootstrapping was used to construct 95% CIs around the estimates using 1000 bootstrap samples of mortality prediction probabilities with replacement.”
Limitations of Animal Studies for Predicting Toxicity in Clinical Trials (2019, background): “, a Fagan’s nomogram) or log calculator to determine how much a test is likely to improve (or decrease) the chances of detecting the condition (53).”