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. 2019 Mar 19;18:85. doi: 10.1186/s12936-019-2719-9

Table 1.

Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy as measures of the performance of a binary classification test

Sensitivity Specificity Accuracy
TPTP+FN TNTN+FP TP+TNTP+TN+FP+FN

TP True positives, TN true negative, FP false positive, FN false negatives