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A certain disease has an incidence rate of 0.6%. If the false negative rate is 4% and the false positive rate is 4%, compute the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease

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Answered by John
true positive happens 96% of the time.

Multiply .006 times .96

false positive .006 times .04

add the two together.
Answered by moses
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