%0 Journal Article
%T THE CONCEPT OF SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY IN RELATION TO TWO TYPES OF ERRORS AND ITS APPLICATION IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
%A Devashish Sharma
%A U.B. Yadav
%A Pulak Sharma
%J Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies
%D 2009
%I Ankur Printing Palace
%X Sensitivity and specificity are two terms widely used in Medical research and are thestatistical measures of performance of a binary classification test. In clinical research thesensitivity of a medical test is the probability of its giving a ¡®positive¡¯ result when the patient isindeed positive and specificity is the probability of getting ¡®negative¡¯ result when the patient isindeed negative. Wrongly identify a healthy person as sick and a sick person as healthy is closelyrelated to the concept of type I and type II errors of testing hypothesis. It was observed that thesensitivity of a test is equal to power of test in hypothesis testing.
%K True positive
%K True negative
%K Fracture neck of femur
%K Valgus Oseotomy.
%U http://www.jrss.in/data/35.pdf