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Table 3 Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of classifying moderate-to-profound hearing loss by the computed screening tones

From: A parsimonious approach for screening moderate-to-profound hearing loss in a community-dwelling geriatric population based on a decision tree analysis

 

Better-hearing ear

Worse-hearing ear

Training Set (Community A)

Test Set (Community B)

Training Set (Community A)

Test Set (Community B)

Sensitivity

95.35%

93.50%

97.53%

97.58%

Specificity

86.85%

90.56%

71.54%

80.69%

Accuracy

91.20%

91.92%

89.93%

91.17%

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