A good agreement?
Kappa coefficient of interobserver agreement. When we have measurements obtained by two observers, the kappa coefficient allows us to separate the degree of coincidence due to chance.
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Evidence Based Medicine pills
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Assessment of diagnostic tests. We describe how to assess the power of diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios.
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Odds ratio. The odds ratio allows us to calculate the strength of the association between exposure and effect when we do not know the baseline risks.
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Association measures. The measures of association are described and how it is preferable to use absolute measures of impact over relative ones.
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Centralization and dispersion. The measures of centralization and dispersion, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, as well as the calculation of kurtosis are described.