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Social & Preventive Medicine General 157101aa

The probability of a test detecting a truly positive person from the population of diseased is the

A
Specificity of the test
B
Positive predictive value of the test
C
Sensitivity of the test
D
Likelihood ratio
High-Yield Explanation
Sensitivity of a screening test detects: true positives among all diseased. Specificity of a screening test detects: true negatives among all healthy. PPV detects: true positives among all those who are positive on a screening test NPV detects: true negatives among all those who are negative on a screening test.

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