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Positive predictive value   TP/(TP + FP). Probability that person actually has the disease given a positive test result  
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Negative predictive value   TN/(TN + FN) Probability that person actually is disease free given a negative test result.  
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What happens to PPV when there is a low incidence   Low incidence --> low positive predictive value  
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Sensitivity   TP/(TP + FN)Proportion of all people with disease who test positive.  
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Use a test with high sensitivity/specificity when there is low prevalence?   High sensitivity`  
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Use a test with high specificity/sensitivity as a confirmatory tests after a poitive screen   High specificity  
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Type I error = False positive/false negative?   Type 1 error = false positive. Stating that there is an effect or difference when none exists. (to reject null and mistakenly accept the experimental)  
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Type II error = false positive/false negative?   Type II error = false negative. Statin that there is not an effect or difference when one exists  
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Probability that there is a difference between two groups despite the study's failure to show the difference?   Type II error  
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To mistakenly reject the null hypothesis?   Type I error  
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To mistakenly fail to rejcet the null hypothesis?   Type II Error  
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Stating that there is an effect or difference when none exists   Type I error  
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Stating that there is not an effect or difference when one does exist   Type II error  
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Probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is in fact false   Power (1-beta)  
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Liklihood of finding a difference when there is one   Power (1- beta)  
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Confidence interval that spans over 0. Is Ho rejected?   not significant. Not rejected (no difference)  
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Confidence interval for odds ratio, relative risk includes 1. Ho rejected?   Not significant. Not rejected  
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if CI between 2 groups overalps, then are these groups significantly different?   Not significanly different  
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Measure teh extent to which the sample means devated from the true population mean   SD/square root nSEM decreases as n increases (as you increase the number of people there will be less variability)  
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1 standard devation = ___ %, 2 standard deviation ____%, 3 Standard deviation = ___%   1 SD: 68 %, 2 SD = 95%, 3 SD = 97%  
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Relative risk   Proportion of diseased in exposed/diseased in unexposed (a/a+b)/(c/(c+d))  
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Odds ratio   Odds of having disease in exposed vs. odds of having disease in unexposed (ad/bc) or (a/b)/(c/d)  
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Attributable risk   Difference in risk between exposed and unexposed  
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Type of error: occurs when group being studied changes its behavior to meet expectations of researcher   Hawthorne effect  
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Error: occurs when a researcher's belief in the efficacy of a treatment changes the outcome of that treatment   Pygmalian effect  
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