Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A new test was compared with the reference standard in a study (see the 2 × 2 table). Find the accuracy Acc as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Evidence-based practice statistics worksheet with answers
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A new test was compared with the reference standard in a study (see the 2 × 2 table). Find the specificity Sp as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A test has a sensitivity of 67% and a specificity of 71%. Find the positive likelihood ratio LR+. Round to two decimal places.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A case-control study compares 200 patients with a disease (cases) and 440 people without it (controls). The table shows how many in each group were exposed to a risk factor. Find the odds ratio OR for the exposure. Round to two decimal places.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A patient has a pre-test probability of 40% for a disease. A test with sensitivity 78% and specificity 78% comes back negative. Find the post-test probability p′ of the disease as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Practice exercise (made-up values, not clinical guidance). A screening test has a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 92%. It is used in a population where the prevalence is 2%. Find the positive predictive value PPV as a percentage. Round to one decimal place.
Answer key
- 1. Acc = 78.4 %
- 2. Sp = 75.1 %
- 3. LR+ = 2.31
- 4. OR = 2.5
- 5. p′ = 15.8 %
- 6. PPV = 15.9 %
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