Important Concepts in Quality Control: Specificity

Specificity Example: Calculations (2)

  • To calculate the specificity of the tried-and-true method, we'll use these numbers:
    325 True Negatives
    Divided by (325 True Negatives + 25 False Positives)
    Times 100
    or
    (325 รท (325 + 25)) x 100.
  • The specificity for the tried-and-true method is 92.8%.

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