Sentence examples for true specificity from inspiring English sources

It has true specificity of at least 99.9 % and sensitivity of 63.8 % to 70%% (Le Goff and Thiaucourt 1998; OIE 2008).

The numbers of patients with these conditions are not weighted according to their prevalence, and therefore true specificity regarding these diseases cannot be determined for the target screening population.

The impact of using an imperfect gold standard during the evaluation of a second test can be demonstrated using a hypothetical example, in which a population of 1,000 infected subjects and 1,000 non-infected subjects are evaluated using an imperfect gold standard with a true sensitivity of 60% and true specificity of 100%, and a new test with a true sensitivity of 95% and true specificity of 95%.

However, since all 12 of the post-irradiation patients whose status was mispredicted by the PB chemotherapy signature had received combination chemotherapy within the prior year, the true specificity of this PB signature of chemotherapy cannot be addressed via this comparison.

The higher Z-score, the more likely the position is a true specificity determinant.

Thus, the observed specificity is inflated compared to the true specificity.

Given that some of the positive samples in this study are true positive, the specificity estimates are underestimated and the true specificities of these tests are probably even higher than was shown in our study.

The reverse is however true for specificity, the fluorescence methods are less specific than ZN by similar percentage points and these differences are statistically significant.

The true sequence specificity of cooperative complexes, and thus their presumed in vivo targets, have to be experimentally probed.

The ROC curve plots the ability of the model to predict true presences (specificity) against its false positives (error of commission), across all possible thresholds.

Corresponding results hold true for specificity.