Sentences with phrase «false negatives leads»

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However, unwanted or unpleasant odors can deter from that experience and lead to a false and negative impression of a dining establishment or food market.

False positive and negative results and over-diagnosis could cause psychological distress, delay treatment, or lead to overtreatment, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

The disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose, leading to a large proportion of both false positives — where patients undergo surgery they don't need — as well as false negatives — where appendicitis is mistaken for gas or cramps and left untreated.

False negatives, meanwhile, can lead people who are actually ill to take no action.

In addition, RNAi screens are also known to exhibit a high background, which can lead to both false negatives and the need for highly redundant libraries to ensure statistical significance.

But reducing the risk of false positives leads to more false negatives, and vice versa.

As with any measure, value - added can lead to two kinds of misclassification: putting a teacher in a group to which he does not truly belong — a false positive — or failing to put him in a category in which he does belong — a false negative.

Schochet and Chaing (2010), for instance, use simulations to assess the potential that value - added estimates would lead to false positives and false negatives, and how the magnitude of error varies based on the quantity of prior information available.

But a minority of people (25, about of 150 in this case) clicked the «most helpful» button, leading to a negative review on top, which is giving new readers a false impression of the other reader's reactions.

Premature cessation of scraping before a small amount of blood is observed on the blade may lead to a false - negative result.

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Thus a real lag of the SH of 21 months may show up as a negative lag of 3 months, which gives the false conclusion that the SH leads the NH.

A permanent, negative effect on crime levels is not to be expected... [With data retention in place] citizens constantly need to fear that their communications data may at some point lead to false incrimination or governmental or private abuse of the data.

The problem is that if every overturning of a conviction required the courts to additionally declare the actual innocence of the accused, then (1) the courts would be required to make patently false statements (when actual guilt is clear, but the path to conviction was improper) which would be bad, and (2) the negative consequences of over-applying such a requirement for exoneration would no doubt lead to a serious decrease in the probability of any conviction being overturned on procedural grounds.

The one bright spot in this is that it might lead to a resurgence in the fine art of sarcasm, masking negative reviews behind false praise, such as: «I want to thank Acme Photographers for coming late to our wedding and missing the ceremony.

While it is true that Pap testing can lead to false positives or false negatives, the issue of its accuracy is a little more nuanced.