Controls are necessary to avoid false positive or false negative results.

Results of sampling, however, need careful analysis as both false positive and false negative results can occur.

Of the 99,500 people without cancer, 1 will test positive, yielding 995 false positives out of 1,470 positive tests.

For example, a test for CaMV is used to avoid a false positive in the event of a virus contaminated sample.

When one is looking for something relatively rare (whether cancer or terrorists), it is wise to remember that a positive result is often false.

A False Alarm About China

Layla made a false report.

Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.

False.

Tom gave the police a false address.

The False Promise of a Eurozone Budget

So hopefully everything has been positive, positive, positive, more positive.

That s a positive side.

America s False Dawn

That s simply false.

As a result, these tools have a reputation of false positives.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

It's a false wall, which contains like 110 cubic feet.

... A report that begins with false premises ends with nothing.

Such a statement is as dismaying as it is false.

One error is to reject a true proposition the other is to accept a false one. Let s call them RWT (reject when true) and AWF (accept when false).

The Eurozone s False Recovery

The IMF s False Confession

Africa s Latest False Choice

Financial History s False Lessons

Mao, the False God

Sri Lanka s False Dawn

Signal detection theory In (signal) detection theory, a false alarm occurs where a non target event exceeds the detection criterion and is identified as a target (see Constant false alarm rate).

Worse, it was turned into a caricature, and then declared false.

So the unraveling of multi national states is a false path.

False gods have always profited from a widespread sense of insecurity.

For decades, his personal rule imposed a false unity on Yugoslavia.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

The Panel also notes that this type of false positive match is a risk inherent in conducting computer matching programmes used to identify potentially overlapping claims (see paragraph 6 of the Special Overlap Report), a risk that is compounded by the transliteration of Arabic names into English.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.

A faithful witness will not lie but a false witness will utter lies.

Fighting Words and False Promises

That argument is also false.

False triumphalism breeds poor discipline.

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness but a false witness deceit.

A false witness shall perish but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

(c) Signs a false certificate for an applicant for a passport or travel document

Tom got quite a few positive responses.

It's a pregnancy test and it's positive.