Sentence examples similar to fairly false from inspiring English sources

Another issue that could be compounded at other airports is the fact that the E.D.S. machines have a fairly high "false positive" rate, setting off an alarm roughly 25percentt of the time.

In order to achieve a fairly small false alarm probability, which is desirable in the context of monitoring applications, it is desirable to select a threshold such that the probability of detection falls to zero when the source is at a distance from the sensor; the larger the threshold the sooner the cutoff appears and the lower the false alarm probability.

This would indicate that the arrays gave a fairly high false positive rate.

ELF3 had a fairly high false positive rate of amplification in PBMNC at 45 cycles presumably due to detecting illegitimate transcription in a very small number of these cells.

However, the specificity at the same cut-off is low: 47% and 37% for moderate and severe OSA, respectively, resulting in fairly high false-positive rates.

Its accuracy, at least in my tests, was fairly good, too – fewer false positives than I'd expect with an emerging technology like this.

False profiles are fairly easy to create; hundreds can pop up simultaneously, sometimes with the help of robots, and often they persuade real users into friending them in a bid to spread malware.

For (HF2) false positives appear fairly constant, but false negatives increase linearly with a slope close to one with increasing number of true splits.

This effect was largely driven by the number of true positives increasing with the time interval, while the number of false positives remained fairly constant.

In addition, simulation analysis by Berlin and Smith [ 56] showed that the likelihood ratio test (LRT) comparing M7-M8 that was used by Swanson et al. [ 21] suffers false positives under fairly simple scenarios, suggesting that the M7-M8 LRT alone does not provide solid evidence for positive selection.

Market makers – or a person or brokerage house/bank – look at many variables to decide whether they believe the proposition will be true or false and are fairly confident they're on the winning side.