1. A method for benchmarking a plurality of diagnostic algorithms for a particular application, comprising: in a processor: defining a true positive rate (TPR), a true negative rate (TNR), a positive predictive value (PPV) and a negative predictive value (NPV) parameter; defining a normalized product entropy (NPE) parameter; defining a normalized product entropy ratio (NPER) from the NPE parameter; evaluating the NPER; fixing a performance parameter vector to define a plurality of sensitivity parameters including a plurality of threshold parameters and a plurality of data parameters; and perturbing the plurality of threshold parameters and the plurality of data parameters to obtain a threshold sensitivity parameter and a data sensitivity parameter.