Your patient’s mammogram is positive for breast cancer which has a fairly low rate in your...

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Your patient’s mammogram is positive for breast cancer which hasa fairly low rate in your state of 1 case per 1,000 women annually.You know from the literature that the mammogram test has asensitivity of around 92% and a specificity of 95% depending on thestudy. What do you tell your patient when she asks do I have breastcancer.

Show your work in both a contingency table and using theshortcut Bayes Theorem.

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ContingencytableDisease DNo disease NTotalPositive TP 000092FP 099805099897Negative FN 000008TN 000095000103Total000109991TP True Positive FP False    See Answer
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