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- Title
Computation Modes of Multivariate Positive Predictive Characteristics.
- Authors
Malik, Marek; Church, Timothy R.
- Abstract
Multivariate receiver operator characteristics (ROCs) and positive predictive characteristics (PPCs), based on a combination of two or wore clinical variables, are usually computed by varying dichotomy limits for each variable independently. This approach has a similar number of degrees of freedom (i.e., uses the same number of programmable parameters) as the approach which defines test positive cases based on a linear combination of all the clinical variables involved. Either approach can be implemented without any assumption about the underlying probability distributions by using an exhaustive computer search. Both approaches were compared in a demonstration study of predicting 2-year all-cause mortality after acute myocardial infarction, based on applying various time- and spectral-domain indices of signal-averaged ECGs from a research survey. The results showed that the optimum mode for the computation of ROCs and PPCs depends on the character of the particular data used. Therefore, in order to increase the precision of the retrospective multifactoral studies, both approaches to ROC and FPC computation should be used and compared in each individual investigation.
- Subjects
HEART disease diagnosis; MYOCARDIAL infarction; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY disease; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1997, Vol 20, Issue 6, p1708
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03544.x