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False Discovery Risk

A conditional risk metric opposite to false omission risk; in binary decisions it refers to the case where the system takes an action but the action is incorrect. Together with false omission risk, it constitutes the two classes of conditional error metrics in binary decision making.

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Oct 15

False omission risk is a type of conditional risk metric that is the counterpart to false discovery risk. In binary decisions, a false discovery means the system took an action but the action was wrong; a false omission means the system should have taken an action but chose conservative fallback.

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False omission risk is a type of conditional risk metric that is the counterpart to false discovery risk. In binary decisions, a false discovery means the system took an action but the action was wrong; a false omission means the system should have taken an action but chose conservative fallback.

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Calibration and Risk-Budget Decisions for System One Models: A New Framework for Binary Judgments in LLM AgentsOct 15