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    A false positive is an error in binary classification in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition (such as a disease when...
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  • performing multiple comparisons, a false positive ratio (also known as fall-out or false alarm rate ) is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis...
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  • False Positive is a 2021 American psychological horror film directed by John Lee from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ilana Glazer. The film stars Glazer...
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    presence of a condition, resulting in a high number of true positives and low number of false negatives, will have a high sensitivity. This is especially...
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    PPV = Number of true positives Number of true positives + Number of false positives = Number of true positives Number of positive calls {\displaystyle...
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    fallacy is the false positive paradox (also known as accuracy paradox). This paradox describes situations where there are more false positive test results...
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  • are false (incorrect rejections of the null). Equivalently, the FDR is the expected ratio of the number of false positive classifications (false discoveries)...
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    five actually are dogs (true positives), while the other three are cats (false positives). Seven dogs were missed (false negatives), and seven cats were...
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  • used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns...
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  • Look up false positive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. False Positive may refer to: False positive error, a result that incorrectly shows that a condition...
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  • testing, a type I error, or a false positive, is the erroneous rejection of a true null hypothesis. A type II error, or a false negative, is the erroneous...
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    the majority of scientific findings are false. Responses to the paper suggest lower false positive and false negative rates than what Ionnidis puts forth...
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    most of the post-Soviet states, although Soviet mantoux produced many false positives due to children's allergic reaction. Tuberculin is a glycerol extract...
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  • positives" are those that test positive (T+) and have the disease (D+), and "false positives" are those that test positive (T+) but do not have the disease...
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    p < 0.01 (1% chance of a false positive) or p < 0.001 (0.1% chance of a false positive). But a smaller chance of a false positive often requires greater...
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  • results discussed above (true positives, false negatives, false positives, and true negatives) along with the positive and negative classifications. The...
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    when it is not present (a false positive) is considered differently from not detecting a disease when it is present (a false negative). Given a classification...
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  • 91.0%), and 82 of those without the disease will get a false positive result (false positive rate of 9.0%). Before taking any test, the patient's odds...
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    a false positive for opiates in a drug test, although more refined tests can distinguish them. To minimize the problems caused by false positives, the...
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  • threshold. As a generalized form of the Bloom filter, false positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns...
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    \mathrm {true\ positive} }{(1+\beta ^{2})\cdot \mathrm {true\ positive} +\beta ^{2}\cdot \mathrm {false\ negative} +\mathrm {false\ positive} }}\,} Two commonly...
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    threshold values. The ROC curve is the plot of the true positive rate (TPR) against the false positive rate (FPR) at each threshold setting. The ROC can also...
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    or questionable results. False positive: The test incorrectly indicates that HIV is present in a non-infected person. False negative: The test incorrectly...
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  • False Positive is a 2022 Philippine television drama comedy fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Irene Villamor, it stars Glaiza de Castro...
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    software, such as WinFixer, MS Antivirus, and Mac Defender. A "false positive" or "false alarm" is when antivirus software identifies a non-malicious file...
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    The "false positives" scandal (Spanish: Escándalo de los falsos positivos) was a series of murders in Colombia, part of the armed conflict in that country...
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  • disease activity in people with confirmed IBD, faecal calprotectin can be false-positive if the laboratory uses low calprotectin cut-off levels. Most importantly...
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    Blackberries Food dyes. Beets Rhubarb Fava beans A urine dipstick may be falsely positive for hematuria due to other substances in the urine. While the urine...
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  • membership query answers whether an element is in a set or not with a false positive rate of ϵ {\displaystyle \epsilon } . Bloom filters are the most known...
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    an actual pregnancy. False positives may also appear on tests used past their expiration date. Urine tests can be falsely positive in those that are taking...
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