Sentences with phrase «to be false positives»

Just as important, there were no false positives.

At the time, it was thought that she was heartworm positive (it was determined to be a false positive reading later).

The last thing you want is a false positive that makes the insurer think you've got something in your system that you actually don't.

In the extreme, if no teachers are classified as ineffective, there are no false positives — no effective teachers are classified as ineffective.

In these instances, the kitten should be tested again when they are six months old to determine if the result was a false positive or if the kitten really is FIV +.

But this is not Yesteryear and generic match - ups are the false positive of political prognostications.

It's possible that Billy's FIV test was a false positive.

The study, led by Ambry Genetics — a more traditional clinical diagnostics company — suggests that up to 40 % of examined «variants in a variety of genes reported in DTC raw data were false positives.»

She feels it is «not likely» to be caused by a spirochete, and suspects positive Lyme antibodies from STARI patients are false positives, cross-reactions to other spirochetes, or souvenirs of travel to the North.

As the researchers told the Extreme Solar Systems III conference in Hawaii today, nearly 55 % of the candidates were false positives.

«There definitely are false positives,» Ryan says.

Many were false positives, such as gravitationally bound binary stars eclipsing one another, but the five previously unknown planets emerged.

We estimate that ~ 35 % of KOIs are false positives due to contamination, when performing a first - order correction for observational bias.

The rest are false positives, due to different kind of astrophysical sources of light or noise.»

«There will always be false positives and false negatives,» said Albert.

1) What to do on a positive screen test from an alcohol screening device (ASD)-- The document states that «it is beyond the narrow scope of this rulemaking» to address what to do if «there is a false positive on an alcohol screening test, if a positive alcohol reading was due to an alternate source, such as mouthwash; or because the Alcohol Screening Devices (ASD's) are not as efficient as Evidential Breath Tests (EBTs).»

Dr. Koren's lawyer argued that negligence claims are only valid if the plaintiff proves there was a false positive Motherisk result, and that result led to negative consequences.

The hair follicle test and the re-test of the urine test both concluded that Manny had in fact continued on his path of sober living, and the positive was a false positive.

Further testing would need to be done to determine if Naomi had classic or Duarte galactosemia, was simply an unaffected carrier, or if the test was a false positive — common in the summer months when Naomi was born.

When the result is a false positive, the the dog is not allergic to the food burt when ingested it results in a positive allergic skin response.

Yet «there are false positives and false negatives.

It was a false positive.

It urged financial institutions to bolster their security, and while many cases may turn out to be false positives or not connected to SWIFT messages at all, it may be a key to put security reviews in place.

«[USADA] said it could be a false positive,» one of the sources with knowledge of the disclosure said.»

In the back of my mind was the thought that it could be a false positive (these are VERY rare, but the doubt was still there).

A positive blood or urine pregnancy test is considered probable, as the test is not 100 percent positive, it can be false positive.

For criminal investigators, if the database contains 10 close calls that resemble the print from the crime scene, that's a significant complication, because by definition at least 9 of those 10 are false positives.

He says the finding should be interpreted with caution as it may be a false positive.

In a manuscript to be submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and posted on the arXiv preprint site, Kepler principle investigator William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and team members say most of the 306 candidates awaiting confirmation — something like half could be false positives — have radii less than half that of Jupiter.

At this stringent FDR, only 7 of these changes were expected to be false positives.

In addition, we identify 428 KOIs likely to be false positives that have not yet been identified as such, though some of these may be a result of unidentified transit timing variations.

Comparing single - planet candidate KOIs to multi-planet candidate KOIs, we find an observed false positive fraction due to contamination of 16 % and 2.4 % respectively, bolstering the existing evidence that multi-planet KOIs are significantly less likely to be false positives.

Two were false positives.

Low positives in allergy testing are more likely to be false positives.

Which made finding out that they were all false positives — and that she wasn't actually pregnant — difficult to take in.

Maybe it was a false positive, maybe not.

How will your insurance company interpret a positive screening result whether it is a false positive or not?

I have also had a couple engine lights come on but they were false positive.