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You are building a prediction model to develop a tool that can diagnose a particular disease so that individuals with the disease can receive treatment. The treatment is cheap and has no side effects. Patients with the disease who don't receive treatment have a high risk of mortality.
It is of primary importance that your diagnostic tool has which of the following?
A false negative is an error where a positive case (belonging to the target class) is incorrectly predicted as negative (not belonging to the target class). A false negative rate is the ratio of false negatives to all actual positive cases. A low false negative rate means that most of the positive cases are correctly identified by the classifier.
For a diagnostic tool that can diagnose a particular disease so that individuals with the disease can receive treatment, it is of primary importance that it has a low false negative rate. This is because false negatives can have serious consequences for patients who have the disease but do not receive treatment, such as increased risk of mortality or complications. A low false negative rate can ensure that most patients who have the disease are diagnosed correctly and receive timely treatment.