Breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or "3D mammography," was associated with a lower probability of false-positive findings compared with standard digital mammography, ...

A rapid COVID-19 test swab is processed. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images) Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were cleared to return to The View Monday ...

Walk-up COVID-19 testing sites are getting a lot of foot traffic these days, but what if the test comes back positive? And what if that test got it wrong? NBC 7 Investigates learned that it happens a ...

What at first seems like an incredibly alarming statistic has been circulating on social media, promoted by a small and vocal group of journalists – at least 91% of coronavirus tests in the UK are ...

Medical tests, like the blood tests that look for antibodies to the novel coronavirus, aren't perfect. Sometimes, you end up with a false negative: You actually did have the coronavirus and your ...

A model that calculates the probability of cancer may help to rule out a lung cancer diagnosis following screening preventions – which would substantially reduce false positives. A model that ...

We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet validation ...

While traditional multiple testing procedures prohibit adaptive analysis choices made by users, Goeman and Solari (Statist. Sci. 26 (2011) 584–597) proposed a simultaneous inference framework that ...