Sentence examples for to decrease specificity from inspiring English sources

Adding MUAC just seemed to decrease specificity.

In general, physical quantities are described by a quantum state which gives a probability distribution over many different values, and increased specificity (narrowing of the distribution) of one property (e.g., position, electric field) gives rise to decreased specificity of its canonically conjugate property (e.g., momentum, magnetic field).

Failure to include timing of pesticide application when studying congenital malformations may lead to decreased specificity for exposure and biased effect estimates (Savitz et al. 2002a).

In the bat fly – bat system, numerous properties interrupt the linkage of parasite to host and should decrease specificity.

Applying lower cut-offs for patients stratification led to an increasing sensitivity at decreasing specificity.

Tree-ignorant methods are thought to have decreased specificity due to confounding of correlations arising from selective pressure with correlations arising from shared ancestry represented by the phylogeny [ 9, 23, 24].

The markedly worse performance of Samtools and GATK for this dataset was mainly due to considerably decreased specificity; this dataset was generated from constrained alignments to exons that likely induce many false alignments, thus the classifier methods may be more robust to artefacts introduced by misalignments.

Although K8.1 EIA would have further increased sensitivity, it could also decrease specificity [33].

In general, lowering the cutoff value will increase sensitivity, but consequently decrease specificity and vice versa.

Studies are ranked according to decreasing specificity (within subgroups).

Adding either of these two criteria to the AECG criteria set increased sensitivity from 83.1% to 90.9% but decreased specificity from 97.1% to 85.6%, whereas adding both criteria in combination did not substantially modify the diagnostic performance of the criteria set.