For a binary marker, which is either positive or negative, the basic measures of this type of accuracy are the true positive and false positive rates.
Productivity is the most basic measure of the economy's ability to create more jobs and higher incomes without setting off inflation.
The political outlook for Labour darkened on Thursday as the government released the latest economic figures, showing that gross domestic product, a basic measure of the economy's health, shrank at roughly double the rate the government had forecast in the period from April to June.
Reforms of bank-capital rules by the Basel committee, known as Basel 2, due to come into force in January 2007, will require bank regulators to use agencies' ratings as a basic measure of the riskiness of a bank's credit portfolio.
The rate, a basic measure of the government's borrowing cost, ended the day at 7.43, still well above the 7 percent level that many analysts fear could eventually shut Spain out of public markets and force it to seek a bailout.
The proliferation rate of Swiss 3T3 mouse fibroblasts and C2C12 mouse myoblasts on as-spun, 500% cold-drawn and gelatin-modified PCL fibres was determined in cell culture to provide a basic measure of the biocompatibility of the fibres.
In order to provide a basic measure of the model's goodness of fit, and given that for each experimental group there is a simulated one for which the initial contribution of each simulated agent is the average contribution of the corresponding experimental subject in the first five rounds, a comparison using Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank tests at the group level can be done.
For decades, temporal contrast sensitivity has also been used as a basic measure of the temporal-frequency characteristics of early visual sensors [13], [14], but the influence of top-down factors has been largely ignored.
The discrimination index refers to how well an item differentiates between high and low scorers; it is a basic measure of the validity of an item.
