SOLUTION: a diagnostic procedure is known to detect infection 90% of the time. However there have been anomalies where the procedure declares a non infected person as infected in 15% of the
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Question 1201208: a diagnostic procedure is known to detect infection 90% of the time. However there have been anomalies where the procedure declares a non infected person as infected in 15% of the cases and an infected person as non infected in 5% of the cases. if the general observation is that 20% of the people who choose the diagnostic procedure are infected, determine the following
1) An infected person is declared as infected
2) A person who has been declared not infected by the diagnosis was actually infected and
3) A non infected person is declared non infected
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