specificity lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• the quality of being specific rather than general "add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion" "the specificity of the symptoms of the disease"
• the quality of being specific to a particular organism "host specificity of a parasite"
• 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)