Sentences with phrase «false negatives too»

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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»).

There can be false negative results especially if you made the test too early.

Even the most accurate test on the market could give you a false negative if you use it too early or incorrectly.

She could get a «false negative» if she isn't eating (either breastfed or bottle - fed), is throwing up, or if the test was done too soon she was born.

The documents also suggest that the officials knew that the Pasteur test was not ready for the market at this stage, because it was still giving too many false negative results.

The negative side is that cepstral coefficients reflect the geometry of the human vocal tract, but we are not too different from one another, so the system tends to make false hits,» says Peter French from the University of York, president of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) and director of J.P. French Associates, the main forensic phonetics company in the U.K. «I believe that automatic systems should be combined with human intervention,» French says.

She worries that it can yield too many false positive or false negative test results, creating either unnecessary emotional turmoil or unwarranted relief, when there really should be extra attention and care.

Most false negative results occur when levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) in the urine are too low for the test to detect pregnancy.

Because the magnitude of the counter acting effects depends on the degree of non-linearity, the rms of the residuals to a linear fit, the length of the trend and the temporal auto - correlation of the «weather noise», it is difficult to generalize whether the method will generally result in too many false positives or negatives.

They noted that the direct implication of their findings in a screening situation was that no matter which PSA cut - off you adopt for selecting men for further diagnostic work - up, you will either have too many false positives or too many false negatives.

Alternatively, it could be claimed that the Holm - Bonferroni correction method may have been too conservative, thereby resulting in findings that represent false negatives.