Example sentences for: false-positive

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

  • (Hence USAT 's alarmist-seeming, but dead-accurate headline: "False-positive rate for mammography 50-50."

  • In other words, ignoring the qualitative calls increased the false-positive rate by a factor of 20.

  • False-positive testing

  • Association studies of candidate genes for complex diseases have been criticized because of non-replication of results [ 23 ] and studies of genetic risk factors in ischemic stroke have been no exception [ 5 22 ] . Rish [ 24 ] has argued that the most likely reason for the high false-positive rate is the low prior probability in most candidate gene studies that the examined polymorphisms are causally related to the disease outcome.

  • Bearing this out, of the fifty-eight proteins included in our networks, only Smd3p seems to be included as a result of false-positive interactions.


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