false positive

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

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

   A false positive can be returned on a password checking algorithm when the password is tested against a dictionary but the password does not contain a dictionary word.

   falsch positives Ergebnis, Fehlalarm, Falschmeldung

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   хибнопозитивний результатxybnopozytyvnyj rezulʹtat, помилкове спрацюванняpomylkove spracjuvannja

2. A type I error.

1. This test has a high false-positive rate.

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2. It was a false positive.

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

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4. In the test set, the neural network correctly identified true planets and false positives 96 percent of the time.

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5. You should have the test done again. The result may have been a false positive.

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