Sentences with phrase «are the false positive of»

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The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

It points to evidence showing that 2,100 women need to be screened over 11 years to prevent one death, but one in three of them get false - positives.

Amazon says the problem was the result of a false positive.

There are numerous false positives of rising VIX on a modest pullback.

As with all technical indicators, an overbought or oversold indicator may be followed by higher highs or lower lows, giving the impression of a false negative or false positive.

A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller incidence of false - positive results.

The price of being tactical are the inevitable false positives, where you sell only to buy back in at higher prices.

THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

After two - and - a-half years of giving income investors false hopes of a recovery, the energy infrastructure sector is now ready to stage a sustained positive price trend.

Since the majority of all investigated hypotheses are false, if positive and negative evidence were written up and accepted for publication in equal proportions, then the majority of articles in scientific journals should report no findings.

You are under the false impression that Atheism is the positive affirmation of the non existence of god....

Unless you think the amounts of the decay element are varying just the right amount to give a false positive to highly repeatable tests and calibrations from samples all over the world (and beyond with meteorites), then you are wrong.

It is only possible to prove an existential positive (i.e. something does exist) or to show that an universal qualification is false (by way of counter example)

Claiming a god exists is absolutely a positive statement of false knowledge, but saying we can't know, don't know, and that we as an individual don't have enough evidence to make a positive statement on any gods existance, that's a rational position to take.

You will have a lot of false positives, and you will be taking many unnecessary evasive and preventive actions that are ineffective.

Christian disbelief is, instead, a positive testing of what is true and false by a single criterion: «By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God» (1 John 4:2 — 3).

Let the positive word come first, so that the gospel may undercut the fears which cause men to harden their minds and hearts against any criticism; but then the word of judgment is needed to prevent all that is positive in the gospel from creating false peace of mind in personal life or complacency about our national culture.

And Jude, though he wanted to write something positive and encouraging, found it necessary to write a letter of warning against the false teachers who were infiltrating the church.

Their positive meaning is lit up only by the fact that in this act He is this God and therefore the true God, distinguished from all false gods by the fact that they are not capable of this act, that they have not in fact accomplished it, that their supposed glory and honour and eternity and omnipotence not only do not include but exclude their self - humiliation.

Which brings us back to Oona Stannard's clear and public statement on 25 February that the Government's «draft guidance is a positive step forward -LSB-... It] helps support schools in counteracting [false impressions of relationships] from within their own carefully planned SRE programmes.»

This study leaves open the question of whether the green tea tested in this study is contaminated with gluten or if something in the green tea is causing false positive results.

We will also discuss ways you can safely promote the positive attributes of your product in a manner that is neither false nor misleading.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results, August is packed with false positives, and there's no morals clause for the postseason.

«[USADA] said it could be a false positive,» one of the sources with knowledge of the disclosure said.»

Fearful of a mass drug - test failure — poppy seeds are said to cause false positives — Chimello ordered flight attendants to replace the offending rolls with unseeded ones.

The problems of false negatives (i.e. the sensor alert not going off when the athlete is later found to have suffered a concussion), and false positives (i.e. the sensor triggering an alert when the athlete is later found not to have suffered a concussion) are real concerns.

First, the number of false positive results is rather high and varies widely by state.

There are a lot of false positives, and parents are getting out of bed terrified because they get an alert.»

But because issues ranging from delays in reporting to false positives can sometimes occur, Wilkerson suggests asking the baby's pediatrician to confirm it came back and if there were any areas of concern.

Highland Park's system will be on from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., when the parks are open, to minimize disturbing neighbors with «false positives,» said Calvin Bernstein, the chairman of the district's Finance Committee and a strong advocate of acquiring the system.

«The risk of a false positive makes it unlikely to be used by criminals to scope out a home,» he said.

There is some evidence that the use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring may lead to increased false positives for fetal hypoxemia and to resulting caesarean sections.21, 22

As a heads up: the paper can of course trigger a false positive for explosives or questionable residue and if that happens, you'll be asked to take the baby out of the carrier, send the carrier through the X Ray and walk through the metal detector holding the baby.

But even when both of these criteria were true, there were many false positives, meaning that many of these babies» weight was in the normal range.

Re: Lincoln, of course a system that filters out definitely - bad candidates will also filter out some possibly - good ones, i.e. have false positives.

This era was also overshadowed by severe human rights abuses committed by members of the armed forces, including the «false positives» scandal, in which peasants were killed and then dressed up as guerrilla fighters to artificially inflate the body count.

The false positive rate is much higher than the false negative rate of existing gun laws.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

Rather than being «confirmed,» they were «validated» through a series of simpler follow - up observations and complex statistical tests designed to rule out false positives.

The researchers realized that one particular analysis variation was spitting out false positives at a rate of up to 70 percent.

That will tell us if the problem of false - positive results in the psychology journals is big, small or non-existent.

For criminal investigators, if the database contains 10 close calls that resemble the print from the crime scene, that's a significant complication, because by definition at least 9 of those 10 are false positives.

More disclosure of how data were handled and reported, and making data available, can help other scientists spot false positives in your work.

That means the 1 % false positive rate will likely be higher in less healthy populations, notes proteomics researcher Lance Liotta of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia.

«Anomaly detection isn't new, and it has a problematic history of reporting a lot of false positives,» says Dr. Will Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work.

The principal measure of efficacy is called Area Under the Curve (AUC), a measure of how well biomarkers identify true cases of disease (sensitivity) while avoiding false positives (specificity).

The computer has flagged about 15,000 possible planets, but a lot of those are false positives.

One common misinterpretation is that a P value of.05 implies a 95 percent probability that the effect is real (or, in other words, that the chance of a false positive is only 5 percent).

If the data yield a P value of.05, the risk of a false positive is 26 percent, Colquhoun calculates.

But an alternative is to make statistical calculations for the probability of false positives among these thousands of exoplanet candidates.