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This actually depends on how rare the disease is. With a relatively high false positive rate and the disease being quite rare (given symptoms that arguably mat
by TimPC 9y ago
This actually depends on how rare the disease is. With a relatively high false positive rate and the disease being quite rare (given symptoms that arguably match), the false positives dominate the true positives anyways.
It does get worse if you run everything on a healthy patient though.. you definitely get back many false positives.