A laboratory blood test is 95% effective in detecting a certain disease when it is in fact, present. However, the test also yields a false positive result for 1% of the healthy persons tested. That is, if a healthy person is tested, then, with probability 0.01, the test result will imply that he or she has the disease. If 0.5% of the population actually has the disease, calculate the probability that (a) a randomly selected person will get a positive test result; (b) a person has the disease given that the test result is positive.

A laboratory blood test is 95% effective in detecting a certain disease when it is in fact, present. However, the test also yields a false positive result for 1% of the healthy persons tested. That is, if a healthy person is tested, then, with probability 0.01, the test result will imply that he or she has the disease. If 0.5% of the population actually has the disease, calculate the probability that (a) a randomly selected person will get a positive test result; (b) a person has the disease given that the test result is positive.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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