#Specificity

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

Suppose, Alice and Bob, two ORBITA HQ PhD students, ask to be put on the same project, so they can spend more time with each other, within the bounds of

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

Felixotic

felix_cohen

Let's talk about tests for a second. When there's a diagnostic test, we look at 2 numbers: sensitivity (how likely is it that someone who has the condition get's a

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

EPI 101 thread on sensitivity and specificity, plus its application to #COVID19 screening. For those who want a refresher!The way we summarize the accuracy of a test (such as RT-PCR

F Rodriguez-Sanchez

frod_san

This is very important. And it applies to any predictive model, not just COVID tests. Models with 95 or 99% 'accuracy' can still produce many false positives/negatives.1/nhttps://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1247449207956537345 This figure n

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Some Great news!!Terrific news from ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ and a MASSIVE step forward towards widescale cheap, simple, rapid tests. This is the type of test that not only will diagnose ppl -

Shahid Iqbal

chshahid_iqbal

*Concepts of sensitivity & specificity in Medicine* I’ve failed to understand these many times, the maths it was presented with made it even harder to understand. I imagine I might

Karthik Narayan

_karthiknarayan

As product builders, we face a critical choice during inception - appeal a large number of users or pare down the offering to a very narrow user base. A smart

John Zaozirny

johnzaozirny

THREAD: Was going to do a quick thread on misc. writing tips when I realized that a number of them shared the same overall theme: SPECIFICITY. And, honestly, that's often

Seth Blackshaw

SethBlackshaw

I'm sure that this paper from Zhou et al., which reports direct conversion of Muller glia to retinal ganglion cells, will be attracting a lot of attention, but first some

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Sensitivity & specificity affect the inferences that we can draw from seroprevalence studies & inform the number of samples we need for statistical confidence. To help, we built two calculators.

Ⓥ Betty Berger 🌱🍔

Aaardvark5

#Vegans Do you consider veganism to be a feminist issue? Would like to know more about this. Feminist because of its specificity to human women or because of its implications

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das_seed

Are PPE changed each time a new sample is taken? Are prices changed if patients live close by or visit clinic? Different overhead costs shouldn't have been divided over large

John Cherian

jjcherian

I've seen a lot of news about the LA study, and the error bars of that study may be seriously flawed as well. It is plausible that the data in

J.Micc

JosephJMiccolis

Aspiring writers should NOT call themselves writers. What if someone is an aspiring pilot? It doesn't make them a pilot. Aspiration means you desire to be a writer. Different forms

Stian Westlake

stianwestlake

Covid testing is big news right now: with a mass testing pilot starting in Liverpool, Boots announcing rapid test plans, and places like universities testing staff and students.Here’s a thread