Describe in your own words the meaning of the terms errors, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value.

Describe in your own words the meaning of the terms errors, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value.

Describe in your own words the meaning of the terms errors, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value. Describe how you will design a study that will optimize sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value and minimize Type I and II errors.

 

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An error is a deviation from the true value. Type I error also known as false positive refers to the wrong rejection of a valid null hypothesis while type II errors also called the false negative refers to the failure to reject a wrong null hypothesis (Lau et al., 2011)

Sensitivity refers to the ability to respond to …………………….

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