Two reviewers thought that QUADAS did not cover all important items, one felt that it did not adequately cover population characteristics (description of spectrum, age, setting, prevalence), that questions regarding therapy, the positivity threshold of test results, and study design should have been included as separate items.
Unfortunately, this study used ascending instead of random choice thresholds of testing, so the influence of decision-making processes on auditory threshold remains somewhat unclear.
Genes differentially expressed between ERα positive and negative classes were determined with a significance threshold of univariate tests at P < 0.01.
Discrepancies between the two HCMV markers may be linked to the distinct viral components analysed here (protein vs. genome), the different districts considered (PMNL vs. plasma), the sensitivity threshold of the tests.
The 5% threshold of the test statistic corrected for multiple testing within the chromosome-segment was obtained using the quick method of Piepho [ 15].
The receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC curves) are often used to compare continuous diagnostic tests or determine the optimal threshold of a test; however, they do not consider the costs of misclassifications or the disease prevalence.
The sensitivity and specificity of an index test change as the decision threshold of the test is varied.
Children who cannot be tested on the BSID-III due to disability, severe delay or who perform below the threshold of the test for individual composite scores (cognitive, language motor) will be assigned a score of 49 [ 7].
The detection threshold of the test device was determined to be approximately 104 (per two paper points).
Then, computing its maximum and minimum eigenvalues λ max and λ min, it is then decided that the signal is present if T x)=λ max/λ min>γ, where γ is the threshold of the test.
