false negative
noun/ˈfɔːls ˈnɛɡətɪv/UK/ˈfɔls ˈnɛɡətɪv/US
Definitions
A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.
- While a false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person, a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.
A type II error (“accepting the null hypothesis when it is false”).
- Statisticians sometimes refer to false negative results as Type II errors. Type II errors cannot be controlled explicitly, but are controlled implicitly via the experimental design.
The neighborhood
- antonymfalse positive
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for false negative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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