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Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu... by lordnacho on Friday March 25, 2022 @04:41PM (#30806838)
You can combine them in an F1 score. Seems like a reasonable way to get a single number, though there might be some drawbacks I haven't thought of.
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Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu... by thaumasiotes on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:09PM (#30808158)
It looks like an F1 score is calculated from precision and recall. Sensitivity and recall are the same thing, but precision and specificity are different things.

Precision is not a good way to describe a test because, as I mentioned elsewhere, it relies on information about the population being tested.

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