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by 2is24
3740 days ago
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The first way is wrong. To show you clearly way: If you apply 1000 tests to a sample in which everyone is ill, there is 0 percent of false positives because a false positive requires the person to be sane. So to detect false positives in a mathematical way, you should apply the test only to sane people and now the proportion positive/total is an estimation of the false positive rate. |
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