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Glossary

False negative

Measurement

A missed positive case: the system predicts negative when the reference says positive.

The positive class must be stated. If positive means an annotation error, a false negative is an error the review failed to flag. If positive means acceptable data, the same phrase describes a different mistake. Naming the actual failure makes review reports easier to interpret.

In practice

With error as the positive class, an incorrect success label that passes review is a false negative.