Youden’s Index and the Weight of Evidence Revisited

Summary

A correspondence between Youden’s index for rating diagnostic tests and the log-likelihood ratio of a positive test outcome is illustrated by data calculated from two previously-published studies of binary tests.

Keywords

Youden’s index - log-likelihood ratio - diagnostic test

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