Sentence examples for a decrease in specificity from inspiring English sources

It exhibits the tradeoff between "sensitivity" and "specificity" i.e. an increase in "sensitivity" will be accompanied by a decrease in "specificity".

However, this could possibly lead to a decrease in specificity as the surveillance system could potentially falsely signal when there was an increase in other causes of influenza-associated hospitalisations, e.g. respiratory syncytial virus.

These characteristics are needed to determine how an increase in sensitivity is counterbalanced by a decrease in specificity.

13 Unfortunately, an increase in the sensitivity of child abuse detection would lead to a decrease in specificity.

It is recognised that the increase in sensitivity of lower threshold PRL is accompanied by a decrease in specificity.

The experienced radiologists can be mislead by the enhancement pattern of CAD, resulting in a decrease in specificity.

Lastly, one study [ 20] that used the HDS with standard cut-off criterion found that by including only those in the sample who were viruologically suppressed, sensitivity and overall classification accuracy were raised (24%to66%66 %, and 57 % to 61%%, respectively), although this was associated with a decreased in specificity (92 % to 50%%).

This argument is in agreement with our CL2 data showing similar neuronal specificity with slightly reduced uptake, and with our CL1 coat data, which shows a decrease in neuronal specificity with the removal of one of the carboxyl groups and the addition of a piperazine with two positive charges.

In contrast to these mutations that led to a decrease in the specificity of the ERK2-Ets interaction, the modeling also allows for a prediction of potential mutants that might improve specificity.

Thus, there was indeed a decrease in stimulus specificity.

We identified a RIN threshold beyond which we observed a decrease in assay specificity and sensitivity.