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False-positive rate (FMR)

In biometric verification: the probability that a comparison of images of two different individuals is incorrectly declared a match. In forensic identification, an elevated FMR for a demographic group creates a disproportionate risk that innocent members of that group will be presented as candidate matches to investigators.

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