False negative rate. A misnomer, misunderstood and misused.

GK Nagy - Acta cytologica, 1997 - europepmc.org
false negative fraction and miss rate. The statistically correct term in the practice of cytopathology
is false negative … of false negative cases) is a part of the denominator (number of true …

Inference without significance: measuring support for hypotheses rather than rejecting them

T Gerrodette - Marine Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… : (i) that NHST is widely misused and misunderstood; (ii) that … I error rate of falsely rejecting
the null hypothesis, a rate not … Despite the misnomer, NHST as used here refers generally …

ThinPrep Papanicolaou testing to reduce false-negative cervical cytology

J Linder, D Zahniser - Archives of pathology & laboratory …, 1998 - search.proquest.com
… In fact, the statement intends to convey that 25% of women with cervical disease, a small
percentage of the US population, will have a misinterpreted Pap smear. Despite concerns …

[HTML][HTML] Invited review: Reproducible research from noisy data: Revisiting key statistical principles for the animal sciences

NM Bello, DG Renter - Journal of dairy science, 2018 - Elsevier
… Yet, misconceptions and misuse of statistics are recognized … As a side note, we briefly mention
the misleading misnomer of a … We illustrate inflation of the probability of false positives due …

[HTML][HTML] Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: A list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases

SO Lilienfeld, KC Sauvigné, SJ Lynn… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and
teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion. To …

Emergency contraception pill awareness and knowledge in uninsured adolescents: high rates of misconceptions concerning indications for use, side effects, and …

S Yen, DD Parmar, EL Lin, S Ammerman - Journal of pediatric and …, 2015 - Elsevier
… in case regular contraception is misused, not used, or fails. … With 44% under the false
impression that ECPs have to be … This myth may be due to the misnomer: “morning after pill.” …

What is atypia? Use, misuse and overuse of the term atypia in diagnostic cytopathology

SE Pambuccian - Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, 2015 - Elsevier
misunderstanding of the cytopathology report, and to an increase the clinicians' diagnostic
uncertainty, with negative … the potential impact of a false-positive diagnosis. Conversely, the …

Interobsenrer Variability of a Papanicolaou Smear Diagnosis of Atypical Glandular Cells of Undetermined Significance

SS Raab, KR Geisinger, JF Silverman… - American journal of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… the AGUS category is a misnomer inasmuch as many AGUS … in reclassifying these false
negative cases along with control … laboratories rather than by false negative rates. In summary, …

A poor prognosis for the diagnostic screening critique of statistical tests

D Mayo, RD Morey - 2017 - osf.io
misunderstanding and misuse of this statistical methodology. … I error (often called the “false
positive rate”) with the posterior … , “positive predictive value,” in this context, is a misnomer. …

Equivocal economic terms or terminology revisited

C Resche - Meta, 2000 - erudit.org
… terminology unavoidably contains risks of misuse or even abuse, … English Language
Dictionary, “a misnomer is a word used to … Likewise a eurobond should not be mistaken for a bond …