Consider a certain screening test for type two
diabetes which has a sensitivity of 85% in a specificity 73%.
Suppose the probability that randomly select Canadian adult has
type two diabetes is 7%.
A) what is the probability a random select Canadian adult will have
positive results from the type two diabetes screening test ?
b) If randomly selected Canadian adult has positive test result
what is the probability they have type 2 diabetes?
sensitivity is the ability of a test to correctly identify those with the disease (true positive rate)
specificity is the ability of the test to correctly identify those without the disease (true negative rate)
A)
0.3106
B)
0.0595/(0.0595+0.2511) = 0.1916
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