In the Mental Health Surveillance Study clinicians

Last updated: 2/20/2024

In the Mental Health Surveillance Study clinicians interviewed a very large random sample of American adults so as to diagnose the presence of mental disorders in the prior 12 months There are many types of mental disorders and a person can suffer from more than one Let X represent the number of mental disorders a person has experienced in the past year Based on this study we can assign the following probability distribution to X in the American adult population 0 1 2 3 4 or more P X 0 775 0 149 0 041 0 022 0 013 Side by Side X 1 Revised estimates of mental illness from the National Survey on Drug Use O Macmillan Learning Obtain the following probabilities Give your answers to three decimal places P X 2 P X 2 P X 2