Sentences with phrase «false negative rate»

The most common lab tests have a very high false negative rate, making diagnoses even more difficult.

When the results were compared with studies in the literature using standard radiocolloid tracers the researchers found that the SN biopsy using tilmanocept provided a high identification rate and low false negative rate for SNs, thus facilitating accurate prediction of the spread of the cancer.

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

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: the false negative rate is 68 percent.

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: only 32 percent of teachers classified as low - performing in math are in the lowest performance quintile in future years, meaning that the false negative rate is 68 percent.

While the false positive rate is very low, the false negative rate is likely to be quite high: very few truly low - performing teachers are flagged for targeted supports or dismissal.

Thus, this choice gives us a false negative rate of 31 percent, down from 68 percent.

Shelter staff missed identifying 5 of the 25 dogs identified as pit bulls by DNA testing, a false negative rate of approximately 4 %.

False positives are not expected, but the false negative rate of sampling can approach 30 %.

Pap tests have a false negative rate of about 10 to 20 percent of all negative results, which might sound like a cause for alarm — but in practice, among those who receive regular Pap testing, cellular abnormalities that are missed once are, eventually, usually caught in time to be easily treated.