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Sensitivity

Sensitivity (of a medical diagnostic test for a disease) is the probability that the test is positive for a person with the disease.

Sensitivity itself is not sufficient to characterize a test. For example, a test reporting all subjects who take the test as “positive” (having the disease) has 100% sensitivity, but such a test is useless – because it has 0% specificity.

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