What,

Do I have to open my graduate level "Stochastic Processes" book?

I supposed that the thread was killed by admin.

On Dec 19, 2007 11:50 AM, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:

> > 1. Your friends work at the same company.
> > 2. It is more likely that you ask someone who work in a big
> > company because there are more employers.
>
> Both on the spot. Now for a slightly more difficult one: a disagnosis
> for disease X has a fals-positive rate of 1% and a false-negative rate
> of also 1%. I go to the doctor, I am tested, the result is positive.
> What is the chance that I indeed have disease X?
>
> I did read somewhere that most doctors can not answer this one correctly
> :(
>
> (and I checked: [OT], although this might even count as [EE])
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
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