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Accuracy

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Accuracy is a term which describes the proportion of all tests which have given the correct result (true positives and true negatives as a proportion of all results):

True positives + True negatives

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True positives + False positives + False negatives+ True negatives

Reference:

  • BMJ (1997), 315, 541.

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