Specificity And Sensitivity

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Specificity and Sensitivity

Medical journals often report the Specificity and Sensitivity of tests for things like HIV or the Zika virus. These measures describe the rates of Type I and Type II errors.

  • Specificity, or sPecificity, concerns the rate of false Positives.
  • Sensitivity or seNsitivity concerns the rate of false Negatives.
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