Sensitivity

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025225",
  "term": "Sensitivity",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The degree to which the model outputs are affected by changes in a selected input parameters.\n\n2. In relation to toxic substances, organisms that are more sensitive exhibit adverse (toxic) effects at lower exposure levels than organisms that are less sensitive.\n\n3. The capability of a method or instrument to discriminate between measurement responses representing different levels of a variable of interest.\n\n4. The degree to which a system is affected, either adversely or beneficially, by climate variability or change. The effect may be direct (e.g., a change in crop yield in response to a change in the mean, range or variability of temperature) or indirect (e.g., damages caused by an increase in the frequency of coastal flooding due to sea level rise).\n\n5. Sensitivity generally refers to the capability of a method or instrument to discriminate between small differences in analyte concentration. {OPP} {OAR/OAQPS} {ORCR} {OW/TSC}\n\n6. A qualitative description of an instrument's or analytical method's detection limit. {ORD}\n\n7. Sensitivity generally refers to the capability of a method or instrument to discriminate between small differences in analyte concentration.\n\n8. The ability of a test to work on people you know have the infection. More precisely TP/(TP+FN), where TP is the number of true positives and FN is the number of false negatives. [Swinton 1999]\n\n9. Sensitivity of a screening test is the proportion of truly diseased persons in the screened population who are identified as diseased by the screening test. Sensitivity is a measure of the probability of correctly diagnosing a case, or the probability that any given case will be identified by the test (Syn: true positive rate). [Last 1983]\n\n10. Ability of a system to detect epidemics and other changes in disease occurrence. The proportion of persons with disease who are correctly identified by a screening test or case definition as having disease.\n\n11. Capability of a method or instrument to discriminate between small differences in analyte concentration. [EPA 815-B-04-001; FEM Document Number 2012-01]\n\n12. Qualitative description of an instrument’s or analytical method’s detection limit. The sensitivity of a test can be described as the proportion of all positive results detected that were truly positive. All positives are the sum of (detected) true positives (TP) and (undetected) false negatives (FN). Sensitivity is therefore: TP / (TP + FN) × 100%. [EPA 815-B-04-001; FEM Document Number 2012-01]\n\n13. The capability of a method or instrument to discriminate between small differences in analyte concentration.\n\n14. A qualitative description of an instrument’s or analytical method’s detection limit. The sensitivity of a test can be described as the proportion of all positive results detected that were truly positive. All positives are the sum of (detected) true positives (TP) and (undetected) false negatives (FN). Sensitivity is therefore: TP / (TP + FN) × 100%.\n\n15. Differences in toxic response resulting from toxicodynamics differences and/or toxicokinetics differences. These differences can arise due to numerous biological factors such as lifestage (windows of enhanced sensitivity), genetic polymorphisms, sex, disease status, nutritional status, etc.\n\n16. Differences in toxic response resulting from toxicodynamics differences and/or toxicokinetics differences. These differences can arise due to numerous biological factors such as lifestage (windows of enhanced sensitivity), genetic polymorphisms, gender, disease status, nutritional status, etc.",
  "subject": "Science and research",
  "references": [
    "Modeling Glossary",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Guidance for Quality Assurance Project Plans",
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "Forum on Environmental Measurements (FEM) Glossary",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment",
    "CDC Epidemiology Glossary",
    "Environmental Sampling and Analytical Methods (ESAM) Program Glossary",
    "EPA 815-B-04-001; FEM Document Number 2012-01",
    "Children's Environmental Health Terms",
    "U.S. EPA Risk Assessment Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/sensitivity/"
}