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. 2004 Jul 24;329(7459):209-13.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.209.

Ruling a diagnosis in or out with "SpPIn" and "SnNOut": a note of caution

Daniel Pewsner  1 , Markus Battaglia, Christoph Minder, Arthur Marx, Heiner C Bucher, Matthias Egger
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Ruling a diagnosis in or out with "SpPIn" and "SnNOut": a note of caution

Daniel Pewsner et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Ability of a test to rule in disease (measured by the likelihood ratio of a positive test) as a function of specificity and sensitivity (upper panel), and ability of a test to rule out disease (measured by the inverse of the likelihood ratio of a negative test result) as a function of sensitivity and specificity (lower panel)
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