> From: Matthijs Mekking <[email protected]> > > https://www.google.com/search?q=false+positive > > http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability-false-negatives-positives.html > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors > > So a false positive is a type I error, aka "the incorrect rejection of a > true".
"True" is an adjective instead of a noun in this context. The nouns in this context are "postive" and "negative." > Putting that back in RRL perspective, I translate that to a false > positive is "the failure to identify and deal with an attack packet" > (like above). That is mistaken. We are talking about testing for (and perhaps mitigating) attack packets. A "positive" for our test is "this packet is an attack packet." Deciding that a packet is not an attack packet is a "negative". An accurate test or determination that a packet is or is not an attack packet is a "true positive" or "true negative". An inaccurate determination by the test is a "false positive" or "false negative." Vernon Schryver [email protected] _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
