Behavioral Science

What is the formula for sensitivity?

Sensitivity = TP/(TP + FN)
What is the formula for specificity?

Specificity = TN/(TN + FP)
What is Positive Predictive Value?
- what proportion of positive results are true
- PPV = TP/(TP + FP)
What is Negative Predictive Value?
- what proportion of those with a negative test do no have the disease
- NPV = TN/(TN + FN)
What is Accuracy?
- the total percentage that is correctly selected - whether positve or negative
- Accuracy = (TP + TN) / total screened patients
What is reliability?

ability of a test to measure something consistently
What type of bias is present when you have used only hospital records to estimate population prevalence?

Berkson Bias
What type of bias occurs when information is gathered in a manner that distorts the information?

Hawthorne Effect
What statistic do we use in cross-sectional studies?

Chi-square
What is Relative Risk?
- it compares the incidence in the exposed group to the unexposed
- RR = exposed with disease / un-exposed with disease
What is Attributable Risk?
- deals with absolute numbers;
- how many more cases in the exposed group than the unexposed?
- AR = exposed with disease - unexposed with disease
What is the Number Needed to Treat?
What the heck is an Odds Ratio?
- used in case-control studies, estimates the strength of a risk factor
- if someone has the disease, what are the odds that they had the risk factor?
- OR = product of trues / product of falses

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Behavioral Science

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Behavioral Science / Epidemiology for the USMLE 1

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2011-07-13T11:12:45Z