A Diagnostic Probability

Problem

A disease has overall prevalence $5\%$ in a population. A machine test for it has accuracy $90\%$ (it correctly reports the true status $90\%$ of the time). Given that a person is diagnosed as having the disease, find the probability that they actually have it.

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Difficulty	6/10
Topics	Statistics, probability

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