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13.03.2020 •
Mathematics
All athletes at the Olympic Games (OG) are tested for performance-enhancing steroid drug use. The basic Anabolic Steroid Test (AST) test gives positive results (indicating drug use) for 90% of all steroid-users but also (and incorrectly) for 2% of those who do not use steroids. Suppose that 5% of all registered athletes use steroids. Based on this information compute the following probabilities.
(a) What is the probability that an athlete uses steroids and the AST test fails to detect it?
(b) What is the probability that a randomly selected athlete will get a positive AST?
(c) If an athlete has tested negative, what is the probability that he/she does not use steroids?
(d) Is "testing positive" statistically independent of "using steroids"? Clearly prove your answer.
(e) [Bonus 1pts] What is the probability that the athlete will either use steroids or she/he will get a positive result?
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Ответ:
a ) the probability of using steroids and having a negative test is 0.5%
b) The probability of testing positive is 6.4%
c) The probability of not using steroids, given that the test is negative is 99.47%
d) No, they are not statistically indepent.
e) The probability that the athlete will either use steroids or test positive is 6.9%
Step-by-step explanation:
Let A be the event that the test result is positive and B the event that the athlete uses Steroids. We are given the following
From which we deduce that
a) We are asked for the probability
. REcall the conditional probability formula that, given two events C,D the conditional probability
. Then we have that
b) We are asked for the probability P(A). We can use the fact that given two mutually exclusive events(that is, whose intersection is empty) A,B the probability P(C) of an event is given by
. Then
c) We are asked for the probability P(B^c|A^c). Recall that
. Then
d) We say that two events A,B are statistically indepent if P(A|B) = P(A). Note that from point B the probability of testing negative is 1- 6.4% = 93.6%. Since 93.6% is different from 99.47% this means that testing positive and using steroids are not statistically independent.
e) We are asked for the probability
. We use the following
Ответ:
A
Step-by-step explanation: