Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321911216
Author: Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
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Chapter 3.2, Problem 37E
Reliability of Testing A virus infects one in every 200 people. A test used to detect the virus in a person is positive 80% of the time when the person has the virus and 5% of the time when the person does not have the virus. (This 5% result is called a fake positive.) Let A be the
- (a) Using Bayes’ Theorem, when a person tests positive, determine the
probability that the person is infected. - (b) Using Bayes’ Theorem, when a person tests negative, determine the probability that the person is not infected.
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