Statistics. A measure for assessing the results of diagnostic and screening tests. Sensitivity represents the proportion of truly diseased persons who are identified as being diseased by a diagnostic test. It is the number of true positive results divided by the sum of the numbers of true positive plus false negative results.
Compare to specificity.
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