Statistics. A measure for assessing the results of diagnostic and screening tests. Specificity represents the proportion of truly disease-free persons who are identified as disease-free by a diagnostic test. It is the number of true negative results divided by the sum of the number of true negative plus false positive results.
Compare to sensitivity.
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