high sensitivity rules out, high specificity rules in
- related: Biostats
- tags: #permanent
SPin, SNout
- For a high sensitive test, a negative test rules out a disease (low false negative).
- For a high sensitive test, a positive test does not rule in (high false positive).
- For a low sensitive test, a negative test does not necessarily rule out disease.
- For high specificity test, a positive test rules in (low false positive)
- For a high specificity test, a negative test does not rule out (high false negative)
- For a low specificity test, a positive test does not rule in
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