Disease test posterior plus a binomial drug trial
Question
(a) A disease affects of people. A test misses of true cases (false negatives) and flags of healthy people (false positives). Given a positive result, what is the chance the person has the disease?
(b) A lab claims a new drug cures of patients. A regulator treats patients and counts cures , testing against and rejecting when . What is the significance level?
(c) For the same test, what is the power if the true cure rate is ?
Short answer
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- The Hypothesis Testing Framework
- Pivotal Quantities and Exact Confidence Intervals
- Populations, Samples, and Sampling Distributions
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