false negative

1. A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.

   While a false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person, a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.

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2. A type II error (“accepting the null hypothesis when it is false”).

1. In statistics we need to distinguish between false positives and false negatives.

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