Sensitivity
Sensitivity: The probability of a positive test result in someone with the pathology (the probability of a true positive). This could also be viewed as the ability of a test to be "sensitive" enough to detect all of the positive individuals in a group of likely candidates.
Related Terms
- Specificity
- Positive Predictive Value
- Negative Predictive Value
- Receiver Operating Characteristic
- False Negative
- False Positive
Synonyms
- true positive rate
- Sensitive
