Sentence examples for misclassification of tests from inspiring English sources

32 33 34 Misclassification of tests as redundant when clinically required, and vice versa, would probably have been non-differential and hence would have caused underestimation of underlying effects.

Consequently, there is an increased chance of misclassification of test data points due to overemphasis of the best fit to the two-point sampled data sets (Figure 2A).

Bayesian decision theory may be applied to formally minimise the risk of misclassification of the test shape feature vector.

FP is the amount of attack detected when it is indeed normal (false alarm), and FN is the misclassification of a test sample as normal when it is actually an attack.

For example, a false positive enzyme immunoassay result for rotavirus could lead to misclassification of a test negative control as a case.

An induced sputum sample for culture is an imperfect gold standard test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), which may have caused misclassification of urine LAM tests.

Although there are several challenges to molecular epidemiological pathology studies, for example multiple hypothesis testing, misclassification of tumour endpoints, and sample size, the discipline also has unique strengths.

For an illustration of determining the costs of misclassification in testing in psychiatry, see Smits et al. [ 7].

Although cecal culture is the more sensitive test, substantial misclassification of infected flocks may still occur.

Comparing results with and without misclassification of the CoD, Peto's test was the least influenced by the presence of such misclassification.

The design that includes the controls is important to test because misclassification of cases with small, ultrasound-undetectable tumors (<0.5 cm of diameter) as controls can be substantial (Baird et al. 2003), especially in cross-sectional studies.