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In Exercises 1–22, use Bayes’ theorem to calculate the probabilities.
Larceny Rates A metropolitan police department maintains statistics of larcenies reported in the various precincts of the city. It records the proportion of the city population in each precinct and the precinct larceny rate (
Table 4 |
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Precinct |
Proportion of Population |
Larceny Rate |
1 2 3 4 |
.20 .10 .40 .30 |
.01 .02 .05 .04 |
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