Sentences with phrase «number of false positives»

It only works in dogs because cats get a significant number of false positives.

This must be balanced, however, by maintaining a manageable number of false positives.

In healthy, low - risk populations FIV is quite uncommon, and this leads to an increase in the relative number of false positive results.

At the same time, there are a high number of false positives associated with screening programmes, meaning healthy people are inappropriately identified as having a potential condition, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Search services specializing in opinions held by the public (ie, «cloudsourced» ones like Google) are a much weaker tool, and generate huge numbers of false positives.

Here we verify their planetary nature by validating them statistically using the BLENDER technique, which simulates large numbers of false positives and compares the resulting light curves with the Kepler photometry.

Professors Caroline de Costa and Jan Dickinson wrote an editorial in the MJA calling for the test to be more widely available Professor de Costa told the ABC that «one of problems with existing technology is that there are a certain number of false positive results.»

[10] They find that given the correlations we typically see among different measures of teacher performance, there is likely to be a significant number of false positives and negatives: teachers falling into one performance category according to one measure and into a different category according to another measure.

For more effective testing we recommend that you have newborn screening done when your baby is between 1 - 2 weeks old, with the knowledge that there are a high number of false positives.

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

In 2009 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) determined that routine mammograms would save too few lives of women ages 40 to 49 to justify the number of false positives and unnecessary biopsies that would result in that age group.

«Taking this approach has significantly driven down the number of false positives,» says Dr. Helen Gu, an associate professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of the paper.

Such a tougher threshold no doubt would reduce the number of false positives.

But for behaviours as uncommon as terrorism or paedophilia, this will still lead to a number of false positives and Wilf acknowledges this.

Inappropriate testing for heart attacks increases the cost of treatment; increases the number of false positives, which could lead to further testing and unnecessary consultations; and adds to patient anxiety, said Dr. Anil Makam, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and first author of the study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

NASA has allowed the team to keep another 400 candidates under wraps to give the team a chance to follow - up on its own and minimize the number of false positives.

Given that combining different summary statistics is likely to reduce the number of false positives, for the remainder of the analysis we defined highly differentiated regions as the 102 genomic intervals that show significant differentiation for both metrics.

Because the L.A. Times did not use this more conservative approach to distinguish teachers when rating them as effective or ineffective, it is likely that there are a significant number of false positives (teachers rated as effective who are really average), and false negatives (teachers rated as ineffective who are really average) in the L.A. Times» rating system.

The Court also candidly recognized that the preventive detention provision would result in a number of false positives where accused persons are kept in pretrial detention even though they would not commit an offence if released.

A clause was also added giving context to the number of false positives in the research.