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Table 7 The 90th percentile confidence intervals for all performance measure estimates of each method for Scenario 6 in Table 1 (corresponding to Fig. 6)

From: Outlier classification performance of risk adjustment methods when profiling multiple providers

Measure

min(n k )

L R F

L R R

g P S A

g P S W

g P S WT

g P S MWS

Sensitivity

500

0.40, 0.90

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

 

1000

0.50, 0.90

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.30

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

0.00, 0.20

Specificity

500

0.62, 0.85

0.97, 1.00

0.97, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.90, 1.00

 

1000

0.57, 0.80

0.98, 1.00

0.98, 1.00

0.92, 1.00

0.95, 1.00

0.90, 1.00

PPV

500

0.26, 0.56

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

 

1000

0.27, 0.53

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

0.00, 1.00

NPV

500

0.83, 0.97

0.80, 0.83

0.80, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

 

1000

0.84, 0.97

0.80, 0.85

0.80, 0.85

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

0.79, 0.83

  1. min(n k ) = minimum provider volume; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value