Sentences with phrase «proportion of both false positives»

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.

The procedure by Benjamini & Yekutieli [19], which keeps at the expected proportion of false positives and is therefore much less conservative, also reveals no significant correlation (adjusted values are reported in the third table columns of Figure 2).

Not exact matches

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.

In legal terms, the false positive rate means the proportion of cases in which, on the basis of the evidence, a suspect is found guilty when in fact they are innocent.