Question: Suppose that a laboratory test to detect a certain disease has the following statistics: Let A = event that the tested person has the disease

Suppose that a laboratory test to detect a certain disease has the following statistics: Let A = event that the tested person has the disease and B = event that the test result is positive. It is also known P(B|A) = 0.99 and P(B|A') = 0.005, and 0.1% of the population has the disease what is the probability that a person has the disease given that the test result is positive?*

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