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Sensitivity of Health Related Indices is a Non-Decreasing Function of their Partitions |
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PP: 183-194 |
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Author(s) |
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Fragiskos Bersimis,
Demosthenes Panagiotakos,
Malvina Vamvakari,
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Abstract |
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| This work aims to theoretically evaluate whether the number k of partitions of a discrete variable X affects the sensitivity
Se(X) of a binary health outcome Y. The distribution of variable X was either unknown or the uniform. Thus, two discrete random
variables Xk and Xk+1 with k and k+1 partitions, respectively, were considered. In addition, a random variable Y that indicates the
actual health status of an individual was also considered. The case of the composite index Tkm
which is formed by the sum of m variables
Xk
j , j = 1,2, . . . ,m either when the distribution of each variable Xk
j is unknown or the uniform was also investigated. This work suggests
that the sensitivity of an index is a non-decreasing function of the number of partitions, under certain conditions. |
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