A test indicates the presence of a particular disease 90% of the time when the disease is

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A test indicates the presence of a particular disease 90% of the time when the disease is present and the presence of the disease 2% of the time when the disease is not present. If 0.5% of the population has the disease, calculate the conditional probability that a person selected at random has the disease if the test indicates the presence of the disease.
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Probability and Statistical Inference

ISBN: 978-0321923271

9th edition

Authors: Robert V. Hogg, Elliot Tanis, Dale Zimmerman

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