Sensitivity and Specificity - See Also

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Terminology and derivations
from a confusion matrix
true positive (TP)
eqv. with hit
true negative (TN)
eqv. with correct rejection
false positive (FP)
eqv. with false alarm, Type I error
false negative (FN)
eqv. with miss, Type II error
sensitivity or true positive rate (TPR)
eqv. with hit rate, recall
false positive rate (FPR)
eqv. with false alarm rate, fall-out
accuracy (ACC)
specificity (SPC) or True Negative Rate
positive predictive value (PPV)
eqv. with precision
negative predictive value (NPV)
false discovery rate (FDR)
Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC)

Source: Fawcett (2004).
  • Accuracy and precision
  • Brier score
  • Confusion matrix
  • Detection theory
  • F-score
  • Gain (information retrieval)
  • Likelihood ratios
  • Matthews correlation coefficient
  • Receiver operating characteristic or ROC curve
  • Selectivity
  • Sensitivity index
  • Statistical significance
  • Youden's J statistic
  • OpenEpi software program

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