The physical meaning of sensitivity and the penalty function concept is employed in the iterative calculation.
In order to ensure that all participants in the focus groups understood the meaning of sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values, the facilitator defined what these terms meant before participants were asked the question regarding desirable sensitivity, specificity, and predictable values.
These estimates appear remarkably high in the light of the special meaning of sensitivity assumed here.
This distorts the meaning of sensitivity and specificity, i.e. accuracy with respect to the criterion status of the case, and produces artifactually lower values.
We also underline that the Bayesian smoothing of the relative risks yielded essentially conservative estimates, meaning moderate sensitivity but high specificity [ 16].
As we can see from the above discussion based on (16), the meanings of sensitivity, specificity, overall accuracy, and Mathew's correlation coefficient have become much more intuitive and easier-to-understand.
The practical value of the tests depends critically on details like their sensitivity, meaning the proportion of tumors that are detected, and their specificity, meaning how many of the positive results are in fact false alarms.
We discuss the meaning of and sensitivity for confounds in traditional and multivoxel approaches to fMRI analysis.
The report "does have implications for climate sensitivity, meaning, how warm does a certain amount of CO2 make us?" Russell said, adding that the world could have a smaller "carbon budget" than once thought.
The lack of clear criteria used in Parker's classification allows diverse interpretations by ornithologists, and there is no agreement about the ecological meaning of each sensitivity level and what environmental conditions each level may indicate of.
