SOLUTION: Consider the test for an illness. The test has a known reliability: i) When administered to a person who is ill, the test wili indicate so a probability of 0.92 ii) When administe

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Question 1171694: Consider the test for an illness. The test has a known reliability:
i) When administered to a person who is ill, the test wili indicate so a probability of 0.92 ii) When administered to a person who is not ill, the test will erroneously give a positive result with a probability of 0.04.
Suppose the illness is rare and known to affect only 2% of the entire population. a verson is selected randomly from the entire population and given the test and the result is
a) What is that probability that the person is ill?
b) What is the probability that the test will indicate a positive
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