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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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0.90BBiopsy +ve (true positive)0.00009A0.00010.10¯BBiopsy -ve (false negative)0.000010.99990.001BBiopsy +ve (false positive)0.00100Ā0.999¯BBiopsy -ve (true negative)0.99890Probability that the test is +ve = 0.00009 + 0.00100 = 0.00109Positive Predictive value• Find the positive predictive value Pr(A|B). To calculate this weuse the conditional probability formulaP r(A ∩ B)P r(A| B) =P r(B)P r(Have disease <strong>and</strong> test positive)P r(A| B) =P r(test positive)P r(True positive)P r(A| B) =P r(Total positive)P r(A| B) = 0.000090.00109P r(A| B) = 0.083• Only 8.3% <strong>of</strong> those women identified as having the disease actuallydo.45

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