Table 3 Sensitivity† and specificity‡ of SRA-DM prototype algorithms and EndNote auto-deduplication (in a dataset of 1,988 citations, including 799 duplicates)
Respiratory study | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First iteration SRA-DM | Second iteration SRA-DM | Third iteration SRA-DM | Fourth iteration SRA-DM | EndNote | |
True positive (n) (correctly identified duplicates) | 600 | 765 | 543 | 674 | 410 |
False negative (n) (duplicates missed) | 199 | 34 | 256 | 125 | 391 |
Sensitivity (%) | 75.1 | 95.7 | 68.0 | 84.4 | 51.2 |
True negative (n) (correctly identified unique records) | 1,188 | 1,186 | 1,189 | 1,189 | 1,185 |
False positive (n) (incorrectly identified as duplicates) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Specificity (%) | 99.9 | 99.8 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 99.8 |
