Question

In a certain community, 10% of all people above 50 years of age have diabetes. A health service in this community correctly diagnoses 95% of all persons with diabetes as having the disease, and incorrectly diagnoses 5% of all persons without diabetes as having the disease. Find the probability that a person randomly selected from among all people of age above 50 and diagnosed by the health service as having
diabetes actually has the disease.

14 Feb 2018
Answer :
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Let $D$ be the event that a person has diabetes, and $T$ be the event that the test indicates diabetes. We are asked to find $P(D \mid T)$. We are given: $$ P(D) = 0.10, \quad P(D')
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