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by cortesoft 3696 days ago
"But with respect to tests, so long as a test has a known false positive and false negative rate, its result can be accurately factored into a probabilistic model of a patient's overall health."

In order to do that, you would also need to know the correlations BETWEEN tests in terms of false positive and negative. And there are a lot of combinations.