The state medical school has discovered a new test for tuberculosis. (If the test indicates a person
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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
ISBN: 9781337119917
12th Edition
Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
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