Sensitivity and specificity
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title:
Sensitivity and specificity
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In medicine and statistics, sensitivity and specificity mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical condition. If individuals who have the condition are considered "positive" and those who do not are considered "negative", then sensitivity is a measure of how well a test can identify true positives and specificity is a measure of how well a test can identify true negatives:
- Sensitivity is the probability of a positive test result, conditio
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Statistical measure of a binary classification
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
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2006-06-17T12:51:34Z
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2024-09-13T16:23:52Z
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