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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=medicine">medicine</a> and <a href="page.php?w=statistics">statistics</a>, <b>sensitivity and specificity</b> mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical condition. If individuals who have the condition are considered "positive" and those who do not are considered "negative", then sensitivity is a measure of how well a test can identify true positives and specificity is a measure of how well a test can identify true negatives:<br/>
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