Considering a certain disease, the probability that one person has this disease is about 10%. A test is proposed to dete

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Considering a certain disease, the probability that one person has this disease is about 10%. A test is proposed to dete

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Considering a certain disease, the probability that one personhas this disease is about 10%. A test is proposed to detect thisdisease. For people with this disease, there are about 10% falsenegatives. Also, for people without this disease, there are 10%false positives. (a) One person has a positive result on the test.What is the probability that this “positive result” is correct? (b)One person has a negative result on the test. What is theprobability that this “negative result” is correct? (c) Refer to(b), to verify the test previous result, we perform a test on theobject again. The result is also negative, which is identical tothe first test. What is the probability that this person is withoutthe disease?
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