Sentence examples for true alarms from inspiring English sources
Or were they sophisticated investors who, in myriad ways over many years, were shown evidence that Madoff's returns were too good to be true, alarms they chose to ignore or discount because they and their businesses had grown too dependent on their Madoff profits?
Ideally, false alarm rates should be low whilst true alarms are signaled early.
For clarification, not all of the true alarms led to official reports because we did not identify the reasons why these abnormal increases occurred (Table 1, 4).
Finally, if these investigations reveal that the alarm events were real epidemiologic events (thereafter called true alarms), official reports can be sent to an official regional public health institution, the Agence Régionale de la Santé (ARS).
True alarms and false alarms were identified by an expert clinician, and the performance of the algorithms evaluated using the standard definitions of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value.
She'd cried with true alarm upon seeing the mountain of laundry in the master bedroom for the first time.
The comments may have been meant more as a wake-up call than a true alarm, though; as The Independent and others pointed out, any move to change league rules in England requires the consent of the Football Association, which would almost certainly never give it in this case.
The main objective is to maximize the screening system's probability of true alarm.
This paper presents a filtering alarm system developed to reduce these false alarms, without missing any true alarm.
For illustrative purposes the true alarm rates for different values of (alpha) have been plotted to 1-false alarm rate.
