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I just wanted to point out that I think it is crucial that the authors included the statement "Assuming a perfectly sensitive test,..." Otherwise, if using only
by youngjh 11y ago
I just wanted to point out that I think it is crucial that the authors included the statement "Assuming a perfectly sensitive test,..." Otherwise, if using only the information presented in the question, there would be no way to calculate the true positive rate, or P(test+ | disease), in Bayes' Theorem.
- xaa 11y agoTrue, but any false negative rate below 100% would cause the answer to be lower than 2%. The problem they were focusing on was the subset of people who overestimated.