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Medical screening is based on measurements on a continuous scale. They have to be discretised to positives and negatives, separated by a threshold. The article deals with setting this threshold so as to balance the two kinds of errors that are committed (false negatives and false positives). The novelty of the method is that it takes into account the consequences of these errors, not only their probabilities.
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This page is a summary of: Screening as an application of decision theory, Statistics in Medicine, August 2012, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5554.
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