False Positives and Referral Bias: Content for a Quantitative Literacy Course
An extended study of accuracy in medical screening is presented as a useful application to increase students’ quantitative reasoning skills. Two detailed examples are presented. The first explores the frequency of obtaining false positive results from a medical screening tool while the second examin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National Numeracy Network
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Numeracy |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.1.2.5 |