sensitivity lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• subtly skillful handling of a situation
• the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
• the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity" "the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth"
• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation "sensitivity to pain"
• sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
• susceptibility to a pathogen
• Measures for assessing the results of diagnostic and screening tests. Sensitivity represents the proportion of truly diseased persons in a screened population who are identified as being diseased by the test. It is a measure of the probability of correctly diagnosing a condition. Specificity is the proportion of truly nondiseased persons who are so identified by the screening test. It is a measure of the probability of correctly identifying a nondiseased person. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)