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What does FP stand for?

False Positive


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Association France Parkinson
FabricPath (Cisco)
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Facial Palsy (medical disorder)
Facility Planning
Failure Potential
Fair Play
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Fallout Prediction
False Prophet (gaming)
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Family Plan (insurance)
Family Practice
Family Program(s) (various organizations)
Fashion Police
Fast Page (memory)
Fastpass (Disney theme parks)
Fastpitch
Fat Potential



Samples in periodicals archive:
An "unnecessary biopsy" occurs after a false positive mammogram when the biopsy is normal.
The module actively learns from each user's previous actions and can reduce the number of false positive alerts without reducing the accuracy of its filtering or narrowing the selection net.
OTCBB: ETAK), an international telecom and multimedia content distributor, today announced the execution of a heads of terms agreement with ValidSoft Limited which provides financial institutions with identity verification, fraud prevention and false positive reduction for credit and debit card users, Point of Sale transactions, Card Not Present transactions (Internet), Internet Banking and Remote Access using patented software solutions which interact with the users of a mobile device.
Recent data shows guaiac FOBT has limitations such as low clinical sensitivity, low specificity, and false positive results, primarily due to dietary substances (e.
The organisation also said the tests would not be 100% accurate and may give some false positive results.
Without input from the treating physician, the PET/CT scans produced a false positive rate of 50% and a false negative rate of 6%.
The false positive rate for mammography alone was 4.
There is a relatively good chance that there will be a false positive for those particular drugs (methamphetamine and opiates)," said Dr.

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