He said the enrollment issue can also be attributed to the
cut-off point introduced by the government.
The PAR index was developed without recommended
cut-off points, and it could not be used in orthodontic treatment need assessment, but as a method of measuring malocclusion and efficacy of treatment.
An NC
cut-off point corresponding with a high sensitivity is important for screening purposes.
Several indexes were calculated to assess the optimal
cut-off point on the curve, such as the Youden Index, the distance of the point closest to (0.1) on the ROC curve and Positive Likelihood Ratio were calculated [31].
We detected statistically significant AUCs for HTN and IR in females; in the case of HTN, WHtR in females provided an AUC of 0.737 (P = 0.006) and a
cut-off point of [greater than or equal to] 0.62.
For that group, the
cut-off point of the age marker was 67 years (sensitivity = 0.977; specificity = 0.320).
Even with the new
cut-off point of 24 hours, it is still madness.
According to the WHO classification of acute leukemia, diagnosis is based on an arbitrary
cut-off point of 20% blasts, as the percentage of bone marrow total or non-erythroid cells, or as the percentage of peripheral blood cells.
It shows around a quarter (24%) say the "
cut-off point" for boys' interest when reading can be the first few pages of a book and around one in five (22%) say it can happen within 50 pages.
Time to get tough When whip abuse first became a political issue it was suggested that five strokes be the
cut-off point. Why not admit that the present system is not working and impose that limit by disqualifying whenever it is exceeded?
The AUC is a better indicator of predictive accuracy than the fixed sensitivity and specificity because it yields an index independent of the
cut-off point, disease prevalence, or other extraneous factors (Hanley and McNeil 1982; Swets 1996).
We now accept that, in fact, the county council invested the money with the Icelandic banks before the credit ratings had been altered and that all the money was invested before the ratings fell below the council's
cut-off point.
