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  2. False positive rate - Wikipedia

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    The false positive rate is calculated as the ratio between the number of negative events wrongly categorized as positive (false positives) and the total number of actual negative events (regardless of classification). The false positive rate (or "false alarm rate") usually refers to the expectancy of the false positive ratio.

  3. False positives and false negatives - Wikipedia

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    The false positive rate (FPR) is the proportion of all negatives that still yield positive test outcomes, i.e., the conditional probability of a positive test result given an event that was not present. The false positive rate is equal to the significance level. The specificity of the test is equal to 1 minus the false positive rate.

  4. Type I and type II errors - Wikipedia

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    The probability of type I errors is called the "false reject rate" (FRR) or false non-match rate (FNMR), while the probability of type II errors is called the "false accept rate" (FAR) or false match rate (FMR). If the system is designed to rarely match suspects then the probability of type II errors can be called the "false alarm rate". On the ...

  5. What Really Causes a False Positive COVID-19 Test? Experts ...

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    The false positive rate on rapid antigen testing is rare. One study from 2022 estimated that 0.05% of positive tests were false positives. Richard Watkins M.D., ...

  6. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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    The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

  7. Sensitivity and specificity - Wikipedia

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    An estimate of d′ can be also found from measurements of the hit rate and false-alarm rate. It is calculated as: d′ = Z(hit rate) − Z(false alarm rate), [15] where function Z(p), p ∈ [0, 1], is the inverse of the cumulative Gaussian distribution. d′ is a dimensionless statistic. A higher d′ indicates that the signal can be more ...

  8. How common are false-positive COVID tests? Experts weigh in.

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    The drama surrounding the hosts' exit naturally raises some questions about how common it is to get a false-positive result from a COVID-19 test. ... The false-positive rate for a PCR test is ...

  9. Base rate fallacy - Wikipedia

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    An example of the base rate fallacy is the false positive paradox (also known as accuracy paradox). This paradox describes situations where there are more false positive test results than true positives (this means the classifier has a low precision). For example, if a facial recognition camera can identify wanted criminals 99% accurately, but ...