Sentence examples for marginal specificity from inspiring English sources

The combination of three criteria (sore throat, cough, and fever) yielded both high sensitivity (74.4%) and PPV (71.2%) but had marginal specificity (47.3%).

The ICC value (Table  4) showed that the overall agreement of the four CP-OCT readings (E5 and E6) had the highest variability among the three diagnostic methods; however, E5 showed promise as a potential teledentistry clinician examiner with a high kappa value (0.72), reasonable sensitivity values (> 0.75), and marginal specificity values (>0.60).

However, two claims in a 2-year period had a higher sensitivity with only a marginal difference in specificity (98.6 vs. 98.9%).

It is agreed that the false positives due to these adenomas in the control group would have contributed to marginal increase in the specificity of faecal pyruvate kinase type M2 (M2-PK) in their study (Haug et al, 2007), as rightly mentioned by the authors.

This is particularly true given that marginal enhancements in sensitivity and specificity often come at the cost of substantial financial investments.

Higher population size P, which is required to establish the necessary amount of genetic diversity of solutions, shows only marginal differences in sensitivity and specificity (Supplementary Table S3).

Many naturally occurring antioxidants have been tested for their ability to correct for deleterious effects of reactive oxygen species, but often they lack specificity, are tissue variable, and have marginal efficacy in human clinical trials.

In the validation study, this threshold provided significantly higher specificity than urine cytology, together with a marginal increase in sensitivity.

GCOS software and Affymetrix absolute analysis algorithm were used to evaluate signal specificity and reliability (Probeset Detection call: P, present; M, marginal; A, absent).

Score-based assessment improved radiologists' sensitivity from 57 to 77%, specificity from 90 to 100% and the free-marginal multirater kappa value from 0.34 to 0.68.

Summary statistics were computed from these marginal distributions to obtain estimates and confidence intervals for sensitivities and specificities.