Identifying and enhancing risk thresholds in the detection of elder financial abuse: a signal detection analysis of professionals’ decision making

Table 1 The four possible outcomes from a “yes/no” signal detection task

Judged level of financial abuse		True level of financial abuse risk
		At Risk	Not At Risk
	At Risk	True positive/HIT	False positive/FALSE ALARM
		Correct outcome	Incorrect outcome
	Not At Risk	False negative/MISS	True negative/CORRECT REJECTION Correct outcome
		Incorrect outcome

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