MEANING
A ratio comparing how probable observed evidence is under two competing hypotheses or conditions.
Use it for
A writer needs to express the relative evidential support for two competing explanations.Provides a formal way to compare how strongly evidence favors one hypothesis over another.
On the page
The positive likelihood ratio indicated how strongly the result favored disease over no disease.
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- likelihood ratio
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