Which ONE of the following statements about the specificity of a diagnostic test is INCORRECT? A. Given
Question:
Which ONE of the following statements about the specificity of a diagnostic test is INCORRECT?
A. Given the subject is free of disease, specificity is the proportion of times the test will be negative.
B. Specificity is the proportion of negatives (subjects with a true negative diagnosis of disease) that are correctly identified by the new test.
C. Specificity is one minus the proportion of false positives (test is positive when person does not have the disease).
D. Specificity is the probability that a person without disease has a negative test result.
E. Specificity is the probability that someone is without disease when the test is negative.
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Medical Statistics A Textbook For The Health Sciences
ISBN: 9781119423645
5th Edition
Authors: Stephen J. Walters, Michael J. Campbell, David Machin