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A certain disease has an incidence rate of 0.5%. If the false negative rate is 7% and the false positive rate is 2%, compute th...Asked by Anonymous
A certain disease has an incidence rate of 0.3%. If the false negative rate is 6% and the false positive rate is 2%, compute the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease.
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Solve using a probability tree:
(sick)/0.003*0.9=0.00282 (positive)
/0.003\0.003*0.06=0.00018 (false negative)
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\0.997/0.997*0.02=0.01994 (false positive)
(not \0.997*0.98=.97706 (negative)
sick)
check: .00282+.00018+0.01994+.97706=1.0000 √
"the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease."
Looking at the tree diagram,
the probability of a person testing positive is 0.00282+0.01994=0.02276.
Probability of a person testing positive AND having the disease is 0.00282.
Therefore the conditional probability of a person having the disease GIVEN that he tests positive is
P(D|+)=P(D∩+)/P(+)
=0.00282/0.02276
where
D=event that the person has the disease
+=event that the person tests positive.
(sick)/0.003*0.9=0.00282 (positive)
/0.003\0.003*0.06=0.00018 (false negative)
1
\0.997/0.997*0.02=0.01994 (false positive)
(not \0.997*0.98=.97706 (negative)
sick)
check: .00282+.00018+0.01994+.97706=1.0000 √
"the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease."
Looking at the tree diagram,
the probability of a person testing positive is 0.00282+0.01994=0.02276.
Probability of a person testing positive AND having the disease is 0.00282.
Therefore the conditional probability of a person having the disease GIVEN that he tests positive is
P(D|+)=P(D∩+)/P(+)
=0.00282/0.02276
where
D=event that the person has the disease
+=event that the person tests positive.
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