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Computations of the Eight Basic Measures in Diagnostic Testing | Chapter 06 | Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science Vol. 2

Diagnostic testing concerning categorical or dichotomized variables is ubiquitous in many fields including, in particular, the field of clinical or epidemiological testing. Typically, results are aggregated in two-by-two contingency-table format, from which a surprisingly huge number of indicators or measures are obtained. In this chapter, we study the eight most prominent such measures, using their medical context. Each of these measures is given as a conditional probability as well as a quotient of certain natural frequencies. Despite its fundamental theoretical importance, the conditional probability interpretation does not seem to be appealing to medical students and practitioners. This paper attempts a partial remedy of this situation by visually representing conditional probability formulas first in terms of two-variable Karnaugh maps and later in terms of simplified acyclic (Mason) Signal Flow Graph (SFGs), resembling those used in digital communications or DNA replication. These graphs can be used, among other things, as parallels to trinomial graphs that function as a generative model for the ternary problems of conditional probabilities, which were earlier envisioned by Pedro Huerta and coworkers. The arithmetic or algebraic reading or solving of a typical conditional-probability problem is facilitated and guided by embedding the problem on the SFG that parallels a trinomial graph. Potential extensions of this work include utilization of more powerful features of SFGs, interrelations with Bayesian Networks, and reformulation via Boolean-based probability methods.
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Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi
Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O.Box 80204, Jeddah, 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Fayez Ahmad Talmees
Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O.Box 80204, Jeddah, 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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