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It's an interesting and well studied area of statistics for medical tests. eg. If you have a test that is 99% accurate and a treatment that harms 1% of the pat
by excuse-me 14y ago
It's an interesting and well studied area of statistics for medical tests.
eg. If you have a test that is 99% accurate and a treatment that harms 1% of the patients and you do this screening of a million people - how common does the disease have to be before you cure more people than you kill ?