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Table 8 The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 7 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 7)

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

Measure

P(nmin)

L R F

L R R

g P S A

g P S W

g P S WT

g P S MWS

Sensitivity

0.5

0.40, 0.90

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

 

1

0.30, 0.80

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

Specificity

0.5

0.62, 0.85

0.97, 1.00

0.97, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.90, 1.00

 

1

0.62, 0.85

0.98, 1.00

0.98, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

PPV

0.5

0.26, 0.56

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

 

1

0.21, 0.50

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

NPV

0.5

0.83, 0.97

0.80, 0.83

0.80, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

 

1

0.81, 0.94

0.80, 0.83

0.80, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

  1. P(nmin) = probability of outliers being small providers; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value