A certain disease has an incidence rate of 0.4%. If the false negative rate is 8% and the false positive rate is 2% compute the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease
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We need to define the following: - Let \( D \) be the event that a person has the disease. - Let \( T^+ \) be the event that a person tests positive for the disease. We are looking for \( P(D | T^+) \), the probability that a person has the disease given that Show more…
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