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Negative Likelihood Ratio

The term Negative likelihood ratio is also used (especially in medicine) to test nonnested complementary hypotheses as follows,

\begin{displaymath}
{\rm NLR} = {\hbox{[true negative rate]}\over\hbox{[false ne...
... rate]}} = {\hbox{[specificity]}\over 1-\hbox{[sensitivity]}}.
\end{displaymath}

See also Likelihood Ratio, Sensitivity, Specificity




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1999-05-25