Sentences with phrase «provide false positive»

As a result, a spit test can provide a false positive of having an issue with Candida, when in fact you actually have normal oral levels of Candida.

While unlikely, this test may provide false positive or false negative results.

However, some scenarios can mimic the signature of a transiting planet, such as two stars that orbit each other, and provide a false positive signal.

Walker cross-tests every antiserum with samples from other species to ensure it's only identifying proteins from its target, rather than providing false positive results.

Keep in mind that we've heard a lot of complaints about IFTTT's geofencing capabilities and how it sometimes provides false positives and takes a while for an action to kick in.

Not exact matches

it does nothing positive except provide a false sense of hope and comfort.

«In order to avoid such false positives, we needed expertise in statistics and bioinformatics, which Aswin Seshasayee and Praveen Anand provided,» continues Palakodeti.

First, it provides a strong argument against the opinion that subgroup analyses of randomised trials should be strongly discouraged because they can lead to false positive findings due to the multiple comparison problem.

«Our method would be an effective low - cost addition to a battery of tests helping to lower the false positive rate since it provides 10 % better sensitivity and specificity than any other screening method, including Pap and HPV tests,» says Huang.

Results from these tests provide also in many cases insights into the nature of the sources of the false positives, which are generally produced by one of several kinds of configurations involving eclipsing binaries (EB).

In addition, tomosynthesis, which provides 3D - like views, may also lessen exposure from diagnostic workups if early evidence of reduced false - positives holds up in larger studies.

Identification of those men at greatest risk for prostate cancer development and progression would provide a means of targeted screening, thereby reducing unnecessary testing, false positive tests, and the burden of overdiagnosis and over treatment.

This observational result, which uses the achromatic property of planetary transit signals that is not investigated by the Kepler observations, provides an independent indication that Kepler's false positive rate is low.

Binary stars provide the primary source of false positives among Kepler planet candidates, implying that false positives should be nearly randomly - distributed among Kepler targets.

Furthermore, we provide a metric to characterise the false positive and false negative rates to provide further information about the reliability of a detected oscillation mode or the significance of a lack of detected oscillation modes.

On synthetic data, we show that BPT provides higher sensitivity in identifying relevant features from the SMR model than permutation test and stability selection, while retaining strong control on the false positive rate.

This provides further evidence since it is unlikely that another protein of exactly the same size will give a false positive test.

They all have some risk of a false positive, which can cause needless worry for the parents and they provide information which is really irrelevant to me.

They provide many false positives.

Critique 1) I have no idea about any cleansing, homogenisation or aggregation performed on this data prior to its presentation by Rutgers 2) Snow extent is only 1 part of the issue, thickness and mass would need to be considered for a full picture 3) I haven't taken care to provide exactly similar sample sizes, however the F and t methods do not require it 4) I haven't taken care to ensure that the same number of winter periods are present in each sample batch; this would increase the risk of a false positive and would have required further investigation if a weak indication of significance had been detected.

The aim is to provide quick links to core information while eliminating «false positives» from research results.

Although it is comforting to provide reassurance, it is not helpful to try so hard to make children feel better that you present a false positive.