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Threshold (or cut-point) predicts the presence or absence of disease. Various tests use a numeric threshold value to categorize results as positive or negative. In this figure, five of nine persons have values above the threshold while four fall below. This simplistic figure does not differentiate true positive from false positives or true negatives from false negatives.
