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Sensitivity measures how well a test identifies disease-positive (D+). Specificity measures the probability that a positive test result (T+) correlates to a real D+ person. These measures tend to be inverse of each other-- that is, the more sensitive a test, the less specific it is likely to be, and vice versa.

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