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  1. What is the best way to remember the difference between sensitivity ...

    Despite having seen these terms 502847894789 times, I cannot for the life of me remember the difference between sensitivity, specificity, precision, accuracy, and recall. They're pretty simple con...

  2. references - Sensitivity vs. specificity vs. recall - Cross Validated

    Nov 1, 2022 · Given a binary confusion matrix with true positives (TP), false positives (FP), true negatives (TN), and false negatives (FN), what are the formulas for sensitivity, specificity, and recall? …

  3. classification - Precision vs. specificity - Cross Validated

    Nov 17, 2022 · I know that if we cannot afford to have false positive results, we should aim for high precision. My question is, how is precision different from specificity? Any examples?

  4. Sensitivity vs. Specificity significance (question) : r/medicine - Reddit

    Feb 5, 2023 · The way I understand it: Sensitivity is used to rule OUT a disease. Sensitivity is best at correctly identifying the people WITH the disease. Specificity is used to rule IN a disease. It is best at …

  5. Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, & ROC AUC - Cross Validated

    Sep 24, 2019 · Accuracy, sensitivity and specificity are improper scoring rules. They all have major problems in unbalanced datasets, and almost as big problems in balanced datasets. See Why is …

  6. ELI5: Please explain Sensitivity and Specificity for medical tests ...

    Apr 28, 2023 · Ideally, you want both sensitivity and specificity to be high simultaneously but this is impossible. In a medical testing situation you use a highly sensitive test first to ensure that you detect …

  7. How do you remember sensitivity and specificity? - Reddit

    And specificity as "negative recall" (of the actual negatives how many did you recall?) In probability form specificity is something like what's the probability I say a sample is positive given it's actually …

  8. Why we use precision/recall in binary classification but sensitivity ...

    Oct 19, 2020 · Both precision/recall pair and sensitivity (=recall)/specificity pair are good metrics and exhaustive enough without the other one. But in the medical field, we have omission diagnostic rate …

  9. Biostats: When do you use PPV vs. Sensitivity and NPV vs. Specificity ...

    Jun 24, 2024 · PPV is the probability that someone who tests positive has the disease/condition. Specificity and NPV have the same relationship except with respect to healthy people and negative …

  10. Test sensitivity vs specificity vs reliability vs validity : r/Mcat

    Jun 25, 2018 · Sensitivity is the ability to correctly indicate a positive. Specificity is the ability to correctly indicate a negative. So the sensitivity and specificity of the rapid strep for example would be the …