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Re:Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data S... by antognini on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:59PM (#13806868)
The fundamental thing to know is the confusion matrix. There are about a dozen terms for various descriptors of the matrix, but they all can be calculated if you know the confusion matrix. The Wikipedia page has a great table to describe them all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix

You can see from that that sensitivity and recall are the same thing, but specificity and precision are not.

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