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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Emergency Broadcast System (redirect from Emergency Broadcast System false alarm)
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 and type II errors (redirect from False Alarm Rate)
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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Nuclear close calls (redirect from 1979 NORAD false alert)
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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Sensitivity and specificity (redirect from False-positive rate)
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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Battle of Los Angeles (redirect from Los Angeles Air Alarm)
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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