However, it has to be acknowledged that radiologists also do not achieve perfect sensitivity in practice.
We found that the most similar, based on l∞-norm, 1000 fragments provide a sufficient sensitivity in practice.
These values suggest that our system is operating at a near-ideal efficiency, and inform a prediction of the ultimate limit of our sensitivity in practice.
In the absence of sufficient information about the unmeasured factors in a dataset, it is not typically possible to estimate the degree of departures from the MAR mechanism for performing a sensitivity analysis in practice.
Therefore, this sensitivity analysis in practice involved re-estimating fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analyses (for both selection and consumption outcomes – all comparisons) using imputed values for standard deviations that were (1) double and (2) half those used in the 'base case' analyses reported in the Effects of interventions section.
Direct smear microscopy using Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining is the mainstay of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in most high burden countries, but is limited by low sensitivity in routine practice, particularly in high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence settings.
Since individual intragenic copies of the target are conserved on sequence level, the high copy number leads to an ultimate level of analytical sensitivity in routine practice.
Only the studies by Francis et al. [ 24] and Berg et al. [ 40] provided prospective data and are therefore able to show sensitivity in clinical practice.
To test whether the design of primers on species-specific repeats increases the sensitivity of PCR in practice, we chose five microbial genomes (N.gonorrhoeae, M.genitalium, L.monocytogenes, H.pylori and C.albicans) and designed such primers.
The factors of safety are initially determined from the sensitivity that is experienced in practice of a part, made from a particular material to a particular loading situation, and in general, the greater the uncertainties experienced, the greater the factor of safety used.
Obviously, it would be ideal for both sensitivity and specificity to be high, a perfect test having 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity, but, in practice, selecting the cut-off is always a compromise between sensitivity and specificity because there is generally a trade-off between the two; as one measure increases, the other decreases.
