The chance of a false-positive test increases with the mother's age.

Thus, in young women, the test would yield many false-positive results.

There can be false-positive results, indicating a problem when the child is actually healthy.

May show something that looks like a tumor when it's not one (called a false-positive).

If left unaccounted for, this could lead to a high false-positive rate.

In other words, ignoring the qualitative calls increased the false-positive rate by a factor of 20.

A false-positive result is more and more likely the closer a woman gets to age 40.

Harms are also increased in younger women because they have a higher rate of false-positive results.

A false-positive test result is one that appears to find a problem when in fact there isn't one.

Test results can be difficult to interpret because of the false-positive results.

I think starting mammograms earlier is worth the increased risk of having a false-positive test result if it could find cancer early.

Nine percent of regular screening attendees had at least one false-positive result.

Prostate cancer poses a further challenge relative to the potential impact of false-positive test results.

Women tend to have more false-positive stress tests, possibly due to hormones.

Oral exams have a high number of false-positive results.

Deviation from guidelines can result in false-positive or false negative test results.

A type I error is a false-positive or in layman's terms, playing it safe.

Research shows that false-positive mammograms may affect women's well-being and behavior.

The false-positive rate was 18 percent, of which half were corrected on a follow-up sonogram.

A false-positive test result may thus suggest that a person has the disease or condition when he or she does not.

And the chance of having false-positive results is higher when you start having mammograms earlier.

The skill of the doctor also can affect the chance of a false-positive result.

A negative result means you are not allergic, but there are sometimes false-positive results.

Amoss wrote that the combination of drugs probably produced a "false-positive" result.

Because of these variations, any system will make false-positive and false-negative errors.

And there was not one false positive in more than 250,000 real people.

This can give a false positive result of the test.

Company officials said that the "false positive" rate was under 1 percent.

But I'm a little concerned about this being a false positive.

Around one in 100 tests will be a false positive.

And of course I'm unhappy because we know this is a false positive.

The answer is not "the false positive rate must be pushed far lower."

The home test was a false positive, and the blood work is right."

A false positive reading could have drastic effects on a child's life.

What I do know is that these are false positives.

There's going to be a lot of false positives down here.

It's worth the cost to save a marriage from a false positive test result.

A false positive result does not indicate a condition of significant risk to health.

The false positive rate is equal to the significance level.

And it has been my experience that some companies get more false positives than others.

The most common issue regarding test accuracy is a false positive reading.

Nonetheless, a false positive is far and away the most likely explanation.

It was most likely a false positive because of large residuals.

Or maybe they're just already used to false positive certificate errors.

He claimed, therefore, that the test had produced a false positive result in his case.

So it's a little worrisome that this thing could false positive.

As more elements are added, the false positive rate then declines.

Well, it could have been a false positive result.

The chance of it giving false positive readings on both tests is very much less.

In that case you might get a false positive.

What I do know is that these are false positives.

There's going to be a lot of false positives down here.

And it has been my experience that some companies get more false positives than others.

Some of the test results are later found to be false positives using more specific testing.

"We think companies lose $3 billion dealing with false positives."

Of those, all but four were eliminated as almost certainly being false positives.

As for all those worries about false positives and the quality of evidence?

Furthermore, the approach results in a large number of false positives.

The results are available within 48 hours, but the screen can produce false positives.

Unfortunately, he said, there are a lot of false positives.

But it certainly is the case that false positives occur.

The false positives can thus amount to a significant, even overwhelming, share of the total number found.

False positives can be disruptive, especially in a commercial environment.

And we always get many more false positives than true ones."

Sometimes, for example, there can be false positives that cause a great deal of anxiety.

Of those, 49 appeared to be false positives, though not all have yet been confirmed.

And I think that that's just, you know, false positives.

As a result, these tools have a reputation of false positives.

In order to avoid false positives a control culture should not be infected.

"I'd say the stack of false positives makes it hard enough."

Hair analysis, however, can give false positives for cocaine exposure.

This can result in false positives (at that significance level).

The risks include false positives; 90 percent of what looks like cancer turns out not to be.

In practice, however, projections along the line of sight cause many false positives.

You can only include real cases and cannot afford to have any false positives."