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Fig. 4 | BMC Medical Research Methodology

Fig. 4

From: Neutral theory: applicability and neutrality of clinical study endpoints where a disease-specific instrument is available

Fig. 4

A novel presentation of false positive and false negative rates at 20%, 50% and 80% prevalence of severe disease for the most and least Neutral studies for each disease with one disease-specific disease severity scale. The horizonal dotted line at value 0 represents the target neutrality of 2. For each paper, the number of subjects reported was used to generate the boxplot. The simulation used 1000 replicates. For papers that did not report the number of subjects, a sample size of 30 subjects was used

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