____________________ Can Find the Probability That Someone with a Disease

question 65

Short Answer

____________________ can find the probability that someone with a disease tests positive by using (among other things)the probability that someone who actually has the disease tests positive for it.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distributions

The probability distribution of a statistic obtained from multiple random samples of a population.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a bell-shaped distribution that is symmetrical about its mean, often used as a model in statistics for real-valued random variables.

Standard Deviation

An indicator used to determine the extent of fluctuation or scatter among data points in a collection.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory that states that given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples from the same population will be approximately equal to the mean of the population.