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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Definitions IIPositive Predictive Value = Pr(A|B) The proportion <strong>of</strong> patientswith positive test results who are correctly diagnosed.Negative Predictive Value = Pr(Ā|¯B) The proportion <strong>of</strong> patientswith negative test results who are correctly diagnosed.Screening Programmes• A patient with certain symptoms consuled her doctor to be checkedfor a cancer, <strong>and</strong> she undergoes a biopsy.• With this test there is a probability <strong>of</strong> 0.90 that a woman withthe cancer shows a positive biopsy, <strong>and</strong> a probability <strong>of</strong> only 0.001that a healthy woman incorrectly shows a positive biopsy.• Historical information also suggests that the prevalence <strong>of</strong> thiscancer in the population is 1 in 10000.• Find the probability that a woman has the cancer given the biopsysays she does (i.e. does the biopsy diagnose true patient status?).• Let A be the event ‘woman has the cancer’ <strong>and</strong> B be the event‘biopsy is positive’.• Pr(A) = 1/10000 = 0.0001 (disease prevalence)• Pr(B| A) = 0.90 (conditional probability)• Pr(B| Ā)= 0.001 44

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