Still, verbal autopsy methods misclassify the underlying causes of some deaths.
"In misclassifying many of its workers as unpaid interns, Fox Searchlight has denied them the benefits that the law affords to employees".
If the identification system misclassifies many positive instances (as negative), it will harm the recall of the classification system; on the other hand, if it misclassifies many negative instances (as positive), it will harm the precision of the classification system.
This may have misclassified many deaths as non-cardiac, when in fact they may well have died from cardiovascular disease.
It has therefore been concluded that the FPG, while being useful to confirm the overtly diabetic state, misclassifies many people with abnormal glucose tolerance as being normal [ 18].
However, in contrast to the new gene set, the previous gene set that did not account for topology misclassified many individuals.
Shorr et al. similarly found that HCAP misclassified many patients both as to their risk for resistant pathogens in general, and for MRSA, specifically [ 5].
By observing the spatial distribution of burned areas, we found that the Landsat based method misclassified cropland and cloud shadows as burned areas due to the similar spectral response, and MODIS burned area product omitted small and fragmented burned areas.
In some rare cases, the method misclassifies known cancer genes.
Quantitatively, among 14,086 test sequences, on an average the proposed method misclassified only 21.1 sequences whereas baseline BLAST score based global feature matching method misclassified 362.9 sequences.
