| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| False Positive | Health | 1: When a test wrongly shows an effect or condition to be present (e.g. that is woman is pregnant when, in fact, she is not). (references) | |
| 2: A test result that incorrectly says the analyte, disease, or condition is present when it is actually not present. False positives can be due to human error, test error, or substances in the sample that interfere with the test. Example: A woman who is not pregnant woman receives a test result saying she is pregnant. (references) | |||
| False positive | Statistics | Occurs in a test when the test declares the condition of interest present when in fact it is absent. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| False Positive | Women | A test result which states that a drug or metabolite is present when, in fact, the drug or metabolite is not present or is in an amount less than the threshold or cut-off value. (references) | |
| False positive decision | Administration | See Type I Error. (references) | |
| False positive decision error | Administration | A false positive decision error occurs when the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected when it is true. Consider an example where the decision maker presumes that a certain waste is hazardous (i.e.., the null hypothesis of baseline condition is “the waste is hazardous”). If the decision maker concludes that there is insufficient evidence to classify the waste as hazardous when it truly is hazardous, the decision maker would make a false positive decision error. A statistician usually refers to the false positive error as a Type I decision error. The measure of the size of this error is called alpha, the level of significance, or the size of the critical region. (references) | |
| False Positive Reactions | Health | Area that the program rates as suspicious but that the radiologist ultimately decides does not represent a possible malignancy. (references) | |
| False positive result | Administration | Estimating (incorrectly) that an analyte is present when it is actually present. (references) | |
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