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Prevalence

P(D)

Probability of a disease or fraction of the population

with the disease

Specificity

P(-|ND) = TN / (FP+TN)

Probability of a negative test given the individual does

not have the disease

How often the test will correctly identify a non-disease

individual

This is the fraction of TRUE NEGATIVES

SPECIFICITY