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Negative Likelihood Ratio


The term negative likelihood ratio is also used (especially in medicine) to test nonnested complementary hypotheses as follows,

NLR=([false negative rate])/([true negative rate])
(1)
=(1-[sensitivity])/([specificity]).
(2)

See also

Likelihood Ratio, Sensitivity, Specificity

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Negative Likelihood Ratio." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NegativeLikelihoodRatio.html

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