Specificity/sensitivity and ROC cut-points

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Teaching point

100% specificity (no false positives) requires the threshold at the far right of the healthy distribution. Specificity = ability to correctly call true negatives; sensitivity = true positives. NPV = TN/(TN+FN); 'missed cases' = false negatives.

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