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false positive

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false positive
n
1. (Medicine) a result in a medical test that wrongly indicates the presence of the condition being tested for
2. (Medicine) a person from whom such a result is obtained


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The module actively learns from each user's previous actions and can reduce the number of false positive alerts without reducing the accuracy of its filtering or narrowing the selection net.
Six months after blood pressure was stabilised on treatment, if systolic blood pressure was measured as having increased by >10 mmHg, 6 of those measurements would be false positives for every true increase of 10 mmHg.
Rogue anti-spyware may not be proven to protect your computer from spyware, may popup fake alerts or create many false positives about your PC being infected, or may use scare tactics to try to get you to purchase the application.
 
 
 
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