true positive

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A true positive is when a classification or decision system says that an item in a class and it is correct, that is it really is in the class.

This is in contrast to with a false positive, a true negative or a false negative.

Used in Chap. 9: pages 130, 131, 140