Example sentences for: false-negative

How can you use “false-negative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Focusing on older L1 family members is likely to increase the rate of false-negative results.

  • The cloning process might generate false-positive or false-negative results because of the cloned sequences being recognized out of the context of the surrounding genomic sequences.

  • False-positive 'hits' and missed false-negative identifications of nuclei were counted.

  • Large-scale production of RNA in situ data is prone occasionally to produce false-negative results due to failures in probe production and hybridization.

  • Similarly, we define the false-negative rate ( FN ) as the number of false negatives among the nonsignificant genes divided by the total number of genes, the true-positive rate ( TP ) as the number of true positives divided by the total number of genes, and, the true-negative rate ( TN ) as the number of true negatives divided by the total number of genes.


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