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false positive

noun

Definitions

  1. A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.

    • A false positive from a cancer screening test will unnecessarily frighten a healthy person; a false negative will deprive them of timely treatment.
    • A false positive can be returned on a password checking algorithm when the password is tested against a dictionary but the password does not contain a dictionary word.

  2. A type I error.

The neighborhood

  • synonymFP
  • antonymfalse negativeantonym(s) of “result of a test that shows as present something that is absent”
  • antonymtype II errorantonym(s) of “type I error in statistics”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for false positive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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