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Sensitivity and specificity

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…

Medical usage, Confusion matrix & Terminology in information retrieval

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Definition

Medical usage

Confusion matrix

Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificity

Terminology in information retrieval

Terminology in genome analysis

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Sensitivity and specificity

Top relations

related to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificity · 5
Sensitivity and specificity → Confidence, For, Sensitivity, The, Wilson
related to Medical usage · 4
Sensitivity and specificity → If, In, Positive, Sensitivity
related to Graphical illustration · 3
Sensitivity and specificity → As, The, When
related to External links · 2
Sensitivity and specificity → CalculatorMedCalc Free Online CalculatorBayesian, UIC CalculatorVassar College's Sensitivity/Specificity
is a · 1
Sensitivity and specificity → test cutoff point

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Important terminology

sensitivity test specificity positive negative true condition disease false result 100 rate negatives high positives patients number line medical prevalence

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sensitivity and specificityis atest cutoff point0.90text
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificitySensitivity0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificityThe0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificityFor0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificityWilson0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Estimation of errors in quoted sensitivity or specificityConfidence0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to External linksUIC CalculatorVassar College's Sensitivity/Specificity0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to External linksCalculatorMedCalc Free Online CalculatorBayesian0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Graphical illustrationThe0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Graphical illustrationAs0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Graphical illustrationWhen0.60section
Sensitivity and specificityrelated to Medical usageIn0.60section

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    Sensitivity and specificity

    Nodes48
    Edges47
    Triples15
    Avg. degree1.96
    Density0.041667
    Components1
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