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A lab blood test is 99% effective in detecting a certain disease when it is infact present. However, it also yields a false positive result for 0.5% of the healthy person tested. If 0.1% of the population actually has the disease, what is the probability that a person has the disease, given that his test result is positive.

A lab blood test is 99% effective in detecting a certain disease when it is infact present.
However, it also yields a false positive result for 0.5% of the healthy person tested. If 0.1% of
the population actually has the disease, what is the probability that a person has the disease,
given that his test result is positive.

Grade:12

2 Answers

Drake
277 Points
9 years ago
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yaswanth
36 Points
9 years ago
this is 12th class ncert direct question
you can check it in ncert solutions in askiitians
 

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