PMC:1247195 / 30996-31497 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/1247195","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"1247195","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/1247195","text":"It is clear that there must be a compromise between these two goals: a stricter rule (i.e., one with a higher value of c or R0 or both) reduces the false-positive rate but also decreases the sensitivity and thus increases the false-negative rate. Thus, to judge the performance of any decision rule, one has to consider both types of errors, not necessarily equally weighted. See Appendix B for an illustration of the implication of different weighting on the overall performance of the decision rule.","tracks":[]}