What's the difference between precision and recall?

Precision


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
  • (3) The determination of basic levels of TSH is more sensitive and more precise.
  • (4) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (5) It now seems clear that greater precision can be achieved through modification of the original technique.
  • (6) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
  • (7) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
  • (8) Compared to the SRK II-equation the results of the new programme are much more precise.
  • (9) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
  • (10) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
  • (11) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
  • (12) These results strongly suggest that urinary GAGs determination is a precise method for ovulation detection.
  • (13) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
  • (14) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
  • (15) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
  • (16) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
  • (17) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
  • (18) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
  • (19) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
  • (20) The precision obtained with the different methods is similar.

Recall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
  • (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
  • (v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
  • (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
  • (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
  • (2) One was a long duration of symptoms as recalled at diagnosis.
  • (3) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
  • (4) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
  • (5) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
  • (6) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (7) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
  • (8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
  • (9) In general, variables that affected recall and recognition of studied words had parallel effects on their associates.
  • (10) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (11) This study sought to determine how well individuals are able to recall accurately their food habits of 24 years ago and identify those factors that are predictive of recall ability.
  • (12) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
  • (13) This resulted in a false-positive recall incidence greater than 92% owing to various additional factors which also influence T4 levels: thyroxine-binding-globulin deficiency, prematurity, and maternal drug ingestion.
  • (14) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
  • (15) In this paper we describe a novel and reproducible technique for measuring cluster formation in suspension between purified human blood monocytes and purified autologous T lymphocytes, and its application to determining the effects of recall antigens and mitogen.
  • (16) Awareness of making dispositional inferences was only weakly correlated with disposition-cued recall.
  • (17) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (18) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (19) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
  • (20) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.