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D DEFINITIONS OF YIELD AND SENSITIVITY OF CUTOFF POINTS FOR NUTRITION RISK
Pages 359-360

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... , where Y = those identified who have the risk and will benefit w = those identified who have the risk and will not benefit Overall benefit from WIC Yes Identified by criterion ~ Yes | No Yield of risks: the proportion of those identified at risk who are at risk = B/(B + o) , where B = those identified at risk who are at risk 0 = those identified at risk who are not at risk Yield of risk is called positive predictive value in epidemiology (Last, 1988~.
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... London: Oxford University Press. ~ Nutritional examples of tradeoffs between specificity and sensitivity are discussed in Habicht (1982)
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