Re:Blood test identifies Alzheimer's with 86% accuracy and d...
by Aron on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:52PM
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Yeah, I think it be comes intuitive as soon as you break it into % false positive and % false negative. Then, after you have test results in hand, you know your odds. In order to use the information from the test, you have to branch on your conclusion given the result of the test.
edit: then I read the link, and apparently both numbers are basically coincidentally the same here.
edit: then I read the link, and apparently both numbers are basically coincidentally the same here.