Medicine, 08.10.2019 21:20, coollid876

Sensitivity and specificity are important criteria for screening and diagnostic instruments. what is specificity?

(a) different method of measuring the same attributes yielding similar results
(b) ability to differentiate the construct being measured from other similar concepts
(c) instrument's ability to identify a case correctly
(d) instrument's ability to identify noncases correctly.

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