Re:Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Sy...
by TimPC on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:34PM
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This actually depends on how rare the disease is. With a relatively high false positive rate and the disease being quite rare (given symptoms that arguably match), the false positives dominate the true positives anyways.
It does get worse if you run everything on a healthy patient though.. you definitely get back many false positives.
It does get worse if you run everything on a healthy patient though.. you definitely get back many false positives.