diagnostic specificity

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The probability that, given the absence of disease, a normal test result will exclude the disease.

diagnostic specificity,

the conditional probability that a person not having a disease will be correctly identified by a clinical test, i.e., the number of true negative results divided by the total number of those without the disease (which is the sum of the numbers of true negative plus false positive results).

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