Question

0.3% of a country has a certain disease. The test for the disease has a sensitivity of 92% (i.e., of those we know have the disease, the test comes back positive 92% of the time.) It has a specificity of 96% (i.e., of those who do NOT have the disease, the test comes back negative 96% of the time.) Determine the ACCURACY of this test (round to 5 decimals) Remember, ACCURACY is correct values (i.e. true positives true negatives)

Answer 1

0.95988 (Accuracy of the test )

Explanation:

To determine the accuracy of this test we have to list out the given values

Prevalence rate of the disease = 0.3% = 0.003

sensitivity rate of the disease = 92% = 0.92

specificity rate for the test = 96% = 0.96

The accuracy of the test can be found using this equation

Accuracy = sensitivity * prevalence + specificity ( 1 - prevalence )

= 0.92 * 0.003 + 0.96 ( 1 - 0.003 )

= 0.00276 + 0.95712

= 0.95988