Medical: Tuberculosis The state medical school has discovered a new test for tuberculosis. (If the test indicates

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Medical: Tuberculosis The state medical school has discovered a new test for tuberculosis. (If the test indicates a person has tuberculosis, the test is positive.) Experimentation has shown that the probability of a positive test is 0.82, given that a person has tuberculosis. The probability is 0.09 that the test registers positive, given that the person does not have tuberculosis. Assume that in the general population, the probability that a person has tuberculosis is 0.04. What is the probability that a person chosen at random will

(a) have tuberculosis and have a positive test?

(b) not have tuberculosis?

(c) not have tuberculosis and have a positive test?

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Understandable Statistics Concepts And Methods

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Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

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