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May 12

CHDS Seminar: Setting Optimal Test Thresholds: Consumer Choice Model and Experimental Test

Headshot of Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University on white background with blue and yellow elements

Time

1:00 pm 2:00 pm

Event Type

From Around the School, Lectures/Seminars/Forums

Join the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) for a virtual Seminar with Jytte Nielsen from Newcastle University exploring preferences regarding the trade-off between sensitivity and specificity in screening and diagnostic tests. For a given test, increasing sensitivity, detecting more true positives, comes at the expense of decreasing specificity, giving more false positives. Nielsen will present a consumer optimization model of how individuals’ make this trade-off and test their results using an incentivized experiment.

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