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Sensitivity and Specificity

"Sensitivity and Specificity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sensitivity and Specificity" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Sensitivity and Specificity" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 8705 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 523 publications in 2008
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.