FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 341:624 August 19, 1999 Number 8

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100% of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article by Suojanen, J. N.

False False Positive Rates . On page 131, Figure 1 was mislabeled. The corrected figure appears below. We regret the error.

View larger version (11K):   Figure 1. The Calculation of False Positive Rates. The false positive rate is calculated as b ÷ (b + d), or 1 – the specificity; the true positive rate (sensitivity) as a ÷ (a + c); the true negative rate (specificity) as d ÷ (b + d), or 1 – the false positive rate; and the positive predictive value as a ÷ (a + b).

 
Figure 1. The Calculation of False Positive Rates.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Kanaya, H., Murata, Y., Oku, H., Hashimoto, S., Morimoto, Y., Murata, T., Sugihara, K., Nagata, F., Nakaoka, Y., Fukuda, A. (2006). Successful monozygotic twin delivery following in vitro maturation of oocytes retrieved from a woman with polycystic ovary syndrome: Case Report. Hum Reprod 21: 1777-1780 [Abstract] [Full Text]