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In the recent Wall Street Journal Article Use of Coronavirus Rapid Tests May Have Fueled White House Covid-19 Cluster, Experts Say there is a description of how the rapid test has been used in the White House. "What seems to have been fundamentally misunderstood in all this was that they were using it almost like you would implement a metal detector," said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health. All tests, including those processed in a lab, can produce false negatives, he and other experts say. Some studies have shown that the Abbott Now ID test, which can produce a result in minutes, has around a 91% sensitivity–meaning 9% of tests can produce false negatives. Suppose a test for COVID-19 has a 0.91 probability of positively (+) identifying the disease D when it is present. Suppose the test wrongly positively (+) identifies the disease Dº with probability 0.05 when the disease is not present. From statistical data it is known that 403.6 of 100,000 people in the population have the disease, so the prevalence of COVID-19 in the population is appoximately P(D) = 0.004. Source: statista Further reading, Abbott defends rapid COVID-19 test with interim trial results and Abbott: ID NOW COVID-19 results more accurate with earlier testing, Abbott Statistian An individual is randomly chosen from this population and is given the test.

In the recent Wall Street Journal Article Use of Coronavirus Rapid Tests May Have Fueled White House Covid-19 Cluster, Experts Say there is a description of how the rapid test has been used in the White House. "What seems to have been fundamentally misunderstood in all this was that they were using it almost like you would implement a metal detector," said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health. All tests, including those processed in a lab, can produce false negatives, he and other experts say. Some studies have shown that the Abbott Now ID test, which can produce a result in minutes, has around a 91% sensitivity–meaning 9% of tests can produce false negatives. Suppose a test for COVID-19 has a 0.91 probability of positively (+) identifying the disease D when it is present. Suppose the test wrongly positively (+) identifies the disease Dº with probability 0.05 when the disease is not present. From statistical data it is known that 403.6 of 100,000 people in the population have the disease, so the prevalence of COVID-19 in the population is appoximately P(D) = 0.004. Source: statista Further reading, Abbott defends rapid COVID-19 test with interim trial results and Abbott: ID NOW COVID-19 results more accurate with earlier testing, Abbott Statistian An individual is randomly chosen from this population and is given the test.

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1. Calculate the probability that the individual actually does not suffer from the disease Dc if the test turns out to be positive, P(Dc|+). 

 

In the recent Wall Street Journal Article Use of Coronavirus Rapid Tests May Have Fueled White House Covid-19 Cluster, Experts Say there is a description of how the rapid test has been used in the White House. "What seems to have been fundamentally misunderstood in all this was that they were using it almost like you would implement a metal detector," said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health. All tests, including those processed in a lab, can produce false negatives, he and other experts say. Some studies have shown that the Abbott Now ID test, which can produce a result in minutes, has around a 91% sensitivity-meaning 9% of tests can produce false negatives. Suppose a test for COVID-19 has a 0.91 probability of positively (+) identifying the disease D when it is present. Suppose the test wrongly positively (+) identifies the disease De with probability 0.05 when the disease is not present. From statistical data it is known that 403.6 of 100,000 people in the population have the disease, so the prevalence of COVID-19 in the population is appoximately P(D) = 0.004. Source: statista Further reading, Abbott defends rapid COVID-19 test with interim trial results and Abbott: ID NOW COVID-19 results more accurate with earlier testing, Abbott Statistian An individual is randomly chosen from this population and is given the test.
Transcribed Image Text:In the recent Wall Street Journal Article Use of Coronavirus Rapid Tests May Have Fueled White House Covid-19 Cluster, Experts Say there is a description of how the rapid test has been used in the White House. "What seems to have been fundamentally misunderstood in all this was that they were using it almost like you would implement a metal detector," said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health. All tests, including those processed in a lab, can produce false negatives, he and other experts say. Some studies have shown that the Abbott Now ID test, which can produce a result in minutes, has around a 91% sensitivity-meaning 9% of tests can produce false negatives. Suppose a test for COVID-19 has a 0.91 probability of positively (+) identifying the disease D when it is present. Suppose the test wrongly positively (+) identifies the disease De with probability 0.05 when the disease is not present. From statistical data it is known that 403.6 of 100,000 people in the population have the disease, so the prevalence of COVID-19 in the population is appoximately P(D) = 0.004. Source: statista Further reading, Abbott defends rapid COVID-19 test with interim trial results and Abbott: ID NOW COVID-19 results more accurate with earlier testing, Abbott Statistian An individual is randomly chosen from this population and is given the test.
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The conditional probability of happening of event A when event B already happened, can be expressed as, PAB, further it can be given by the formula, PAB=P(A∩B)P(B).

 

The Baye's theorem can be used to calculate the probability PAB. It states that PAB=PBA·P(A)P(B).

 

The probability of compliment of an event can be given by subtracting the probability of that event from 1. 

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