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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Dependent Stages• Andrew, John <strong>and</strong> Mark play a game <strong>of</strong> chicken. There are sixsimilar cars, two <strong>of</strong> which have had the brakes disabled. Eachperson chooses a car at r<strong>and</strong>om, drives at high speed towards ariver, <strong>and</strong> brakes in time to stop. The boys decide to proceed inalphabetical order• Find Pr(each will lose) <strong>and</strong> Pr(no loser) where the game stopswhen the first boy drives into the river.2/6Andrew LosesJohn Loses4/63/52/52/4Mark Loses2/4No loserPr(Andrew loses) = 2/6= 1/3Pr(John loses) = 4/6 × 2/5= 4/15Pr(Mark loses) = 4/6 × 3/5 × 2/4= 3/15Pr(no loser) = 4/6 × 3/5 × 2/4= 1/5DefinitionsSensitivity = Pr(B| A) The probability that a person with thedisease returns a positive result.Specificity = Pr(¯B| Ā) The probability that a person withoutthe disease returns a negative result.43

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