Question: Could you please help me to solve this question step by step? and some explanation (7) [15 marks] There is a rare disease called Nerditosis

Could you please help me to solve this question step by step? and some explanation

Could you please help me to solve this question step by step?

(7) [15 marks] There is a rare disease called Nerditosis which aiicts about 1 CS student in 1000. One symptom of Nerditosis is a compulsion to refer to everything using numbers or Greek symbols. Two professors claim that they can diagnose Nerditosis. o If the student has Nerditosis, Professor X can detect it with probability 0.99. o If the student does not Nerditosis, Professor X will erroneously detect it with probability 0.03. 0 Professor Y does not have the sophisticated equipment that Professor X has, but he knows that Nerditosis aects one in thousand students on average. Hence, when asked if a student has Nerditosis, Professor Y says \"yes\" with probability . 2 o What is the probability that Professor X misdiagnoses Nerditosis i.e. says \"yes\" when the student does not have it or ' 0\" when the student does indeed have it? [7 marks] 0 What is the probability that Professor Y misdiagnoses Nerditosis? [7 marks] 0 Which professor is more accurate in detecting Nerditosis? [1 marks]

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