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> Ada software engineering project. For instance, in pattern recognition there
> is a well known balance between false positives and false negatives. As one
> goes up, the other goes down. One approach that has worked for other

No doubt that with many algorithms, a parameter
change that decreases false negatives will
increase false positives and vice versa.

This is not necessarily true of a change in
_algorithm_  It is quite conceivable that
one algorithm might reduce _both_ compared to
another algorithm.

It is also true that with some algorithms,
one can determine the reason for a false positive
and add an explicit test for that reason, thereby
reducing false positives with no change in
false negatives.