In the article Prevalence and predictability of low-yield inpatient laboratory diagnostic tests published in JAMA Network Open

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In the article “Prevalence and predictability of low-yield inpatient laboratory diagnostic tests” published in JAMA Network Open (Xu, 2019), the authors reported the prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity for diagnosing normal troponin I levels; troponin I is a marker for acute myocardial infarction. The authors reported a prevalence of 0.33, a sensitivity of 0.88, and a specificity of 0.79 for the lab test for troponin I levels. Determine the

(a) positive predictive value (PPV) for this test.

(b) negative predictive value (NPV) for this test.

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