While sensitivity and specificity are important for assessing discriminatory power of prediction rules, positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV) may be of more practical interest to clinicians interested in predicting how likely a given patient is to gain substantial amount of weight.
The animals on the high fat diet (HF group shown in solid blue triangles) gained a substantial amount of weight and fat and the animals supplemented with the liquid Ensure (EN group shown in solid magenta squares) gained even more.
He appeared to have gained a substantial amount of weight, and he had trouble both reading from his text and, later, hearing questions.
That was peculiar because the sites were too new to have gained a substantial amount of traffic by organic means – and yet seemed to have eager readers of exactly the right sort.
Atangana gained a substantial amount of wealth.
I had all the symptoms of ovarian cancer, but the most annoying (I was a little shallow back then) was that I had gained a substantial amount of weight directly in my abdomen.
For many companies, streamlining core processes has yielded impressive gains, saving substantial amounts of money and time, and providing customers with more valuable products and services.
The box would also highlight Abilify's most important side effects: it caused 21 percent of patients in the trials to develop akathisia, or severe restlessness, and 4 percent to gain a substantial amount of weight.
Verizon, meanwhile, will gain a substantial amount of new spectrum at a time when it and its smaller competitors, like AT&T, are striving to keep up with growing demand.
If this breakdown is correct, Stitch Fix would unequivocally be best in class and gaining a substantial amount of leverage from their stylist model, degrading net margins by only 4% in exchange for a substantial lift in customer loyalty, personalization and authenticity.
