The phrase "actual negative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to specify a genuine or real negative condition or outcome, often in discussions about data, statistics, or psychological assessments.
Example: "In the study, we found that the actual negative responses were significantly higher than anticipated."
Alternatives: "real negative" or "true negative".
For instance, it should be noted that CSR initiatives taken by firms, which is the primary operationalization of CSR performance in most databases, in itself does not mean that firms are actually reducing their actual negative impacts on society.
His actual negative double said that he was 4-4 in the majors.
The aggressiveness of my practice — cutting into the actual negative, reflects that tension".
In fact, they were more likely to interpret "positive" faces as being "negative" more than the actual negative ones.
So you can see why Woodford is skeptical about QE, although I still don't see where the size of the Fed's balance sheet becomes an actual negative.
It can be calculated as the number of negative events that are mistakenly categorized as positive and the total number of actual negative events.
"The Age negatives were shipped to the US for digitisation, and the actual negatives arrived back in Australia in March and are currently on site at Media House, Melbourne.
Specificity refers to proportion of actual negatives which are predicted negatives (TN/TN + FP).
An initial analysis is provided to show the accuracy of this method and promising results of restoration of actual negatives from a special archive collection are then produced.
By definition, sensitivity refers to the proportion of actual positives which are correctly predicted as positive; specificity is the proportion of actual negatives which are correctly predicted as negative; while PPV is the proportion of predicted positives which are actual positive.
For each category, the number of actual positives equals TP plus FN and the number of actual negatives equals FP plus TN (Table 1).
