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Table 1 Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy as measures of the performance of a binary classification test

From: Detection of Plasmodium falciparum infected Anopheles gambiae using near-infrared spectroscopy

Sensitivity

Specificity

Accuracy

\(\frac{TP}{TP + FN}\)

\(\frac{TN}{TN + FP}\)

\(\frac{TP + TN}{TP + TN + FP + FN}\)

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