• A false alarm, also called a nuisance alarm, is the deceptive or erroneous report of an emergency, causing unnecessary panic and/or bringing resources...
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  • Look up false alarm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. False Alarm may refer to: False Alarm (band), an American punk rock band False Alarm (album), by...
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    The alert was confirmed to be a false alarm. In a nearly-identical manner to the Hawaii incident, the false alarm was the result of an operator error...
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  • performing multiple comparisons, a false positive ratio (also known as fall-out or false alarm rate ) is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis...
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    feed. tocsin – a historical alarm mechanism Alarm management Warning system False alarm Physical security Security alarm "Alarm Definition & Meaning". www...
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  • Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection is a common form of adaptive algorithm used in radar systems to detect target returns against a background...
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  • In statistics, the false discovery rate (FDR) is a method of conceptualizing the rate of type I errors in null hypothesis testing when conducting multiple...
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  • "False Alarm" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, from his third studio album, Starboy (2016). It was released as the album's second...
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    messages, the accidental activation was officially terminated. This false alarm demonstrated major flaws in the practical implementation of an EAN. Many...
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  • Type I error (false positive): The true fact is that the item is not a weapon but the system still sounds an alarm. Type II error (false negative) The...
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  • False Alarm is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club, released on 21 June 2019 by Prolifica Inc. and PIAS Recordings...
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    the United States. These missile attack warnings were suspected to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces on...
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  • Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is a video game based on the Flash cartoon series Happy Tree Friends developed by independent software developer Stainless...
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    and 98% of all alarm calls to law enforcement are false alarms. System reliability and user error are the cause of most false alarms, sometimes called...
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    Air Defence Forces who played a key role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military...
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  • phenomenon Cassandra complex Climate alarmism Culture of fear – fear and anxiety in public discourse False alarm Hypochondriasis – excessive fear of illness...
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  • False Alarm is an American punk rock band founded in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, in 1982. False Alarm started in 1982. Brent Alden, bass player for the...
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    Panic button (redirect from Panic alarm)
    the house, who will then first check for a false alarm by phoning the person, and if there is no false alarm, will enter the person's flat to determine...
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  • scrambled the B-52 bombers at the base before the duty officer declared a false alarm. The crisis finally ended when Prime Minister Meir halted all military...
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    from measurements of the hit rate and false-alarm rate. It is calculated as: d′ = Z(hit rate) − Z(false alarm rate), where function Z(p), p ∈ [0, 1]...
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    In animal communication, an alarm signal is an antipredator adaptation in the form of signals emitted by social animals in response to danger. Many primates...
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  • The False Alarm is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Dorothy Revier, and John Harron. As described...
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    T-top vehicles. These sensors are usually adjustable in order to avoid false alarms. For example, a shock sensor will sometimes vibrate due to loud noises...
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    afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the purported attack a "false alarm". Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations...
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    also called The Powder Alarm, occurred in Virginia in April, 1775. Although it proved to be a false alarm, the Powder Alarm caused political and military...
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  • wolf, such false alarms rob the critical alarms of the importance they deserve. Alarm management and policy are critical to prevent alarm fatigue. The...
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  • costly than a false alarm (reporting a bomber when there is not one), making a liberal response bias desirable. In contrast, giving false alarms too often...
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    while giving little weight to the losses in precision (and making many false alarms). In the other direction, Blackstone's ratio, "It is better that ten...
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    "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with...
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  • September 28. The song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. "False Alarm" was released digitally as the album's second single on September 29...
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