8 15 False Negative Rate In a diagnostic test for a

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8 15 False Negative Rate In a diagnostic test for a particular disease the condi tional probability that a person has the disease given that the test is negative is called the false negative rate Suppose the PSA screening test with the prop erties described in Example 13 14 is used to screen for prostate cancer in the population of men over 50 for which 6 3 have prostate cancer Compute the false negative rate using Bayes rule