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Antonio Martín Andrés¹, Pedro Femia Marzo¹

¹Biostatistics. School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Journal of Applied Statistics

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Summary

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Comparing two medical diagnostic tests requires assessing positive predictive value and negative predictive value. New methods offer optimal comparative assessment for paired samples, enhancing diagnostic test evaluation.

Keywords:

Binary diagnostic test confidence intervals hypothesis test paired design positive and negative predictive values

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Area of Science:

Medical Diagnostics
Biostatistics
Health Services Research

Background:

Positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) are crucial for evaluating medical diagnostic test utility.
Comparative assessment of two diagnostic tests using paired samples is essential for clinical decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and compare inference methods for assessing the difference or ratio of PPV and NPV between two diagnostic tests.
To identify optimal methods for individual and global homogeneity testing of predictive values.

Main Methods:

Defining two symmetry properties for inference methods.
Proposing new inference methods with simple expressions.
Comparing existing and new methods using paired sample data.

Main Results:

For confidence intervals of the difference or ratio, the optimal methods involve adding 0.5 to the original data (Wang et al. for difference, new method for ratio).
For individual homogeneity testing, the optimal method uses predictive values estimated under the null hypothesis.
For global homogeneity testing, the proposed new method is optimal.

Conclusions:

The study provides optimal statistical methods for comparing the performance of two diagnostic tests.
These methods enhance the comparative assessment of PPV and NPV in clinical practice.
The findings support more accurate and reliable diagnostic test evaluations.