Letter S

Specificity

<B>1.</B> The quality of being specific as, for example, she showed the use of specificity in her diagnosis.

<B>2.</B> The proportion of persons without a disease who are correctly identified by a test.

The specificity is the number of true negative results divided by the sum of the numbers of true negative plus false positive results

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