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Table 3 The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 2 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 2)

From: Outlier classification performance of risk adjustment methods when profiling multiple providers

Measure

p ..

L R F

L R R

g P S A

g P S W

g P S WT

g P S MWS

Sensitivity

0.03

0.20, 0.70

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.10

 

0.10

0.50, 0.90

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

 

0.20

0.68, 1.00

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.30

Specificity

0.03

0.75, 0.95

0.97, 1.00

0.97, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.95, 1.00

 

0.10

0.57, 0.80

0.98, 1.00

0.98, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.95, 1.00

0.90, 1.00

 

0.20

0.45, 0.72

0.97, 1.00

0.97, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.95, 1.00

0.90, 1.00

PPV

0.03

0.18, 0.67

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

 

0.10

0.27, 0.53

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

 

0.20

0.26, 0.43

0.50, 1.00

0.50, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

NPV

0.03

0.80, 0.92

0.80, 0.83

0.80, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.82

 

0.10

0.84, 0.97

0.80, 0.85

0.80, 0.85

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

 

0.20

0.86, 1.00

0.80, 0.85

0.80, 0.85

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.85

  1. p.. = average mortality rate over providers; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value