Parameters of greatest inte rest to physicians

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The predictive values are the parameters of greatest inte rest to physicians and patients, but their main disadvantage is that they can easily be misinterpreted. We will also present the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC) as additional important measures for the assessment of diagnostic tests. Further topics are discussed in the supplementary materials.

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