Question: Testing the test Are false positives too common in some medical tests? Researchers conducted an experiment involving 250 patients with a medical condition and 750 other patients who did not have the medical condition. The medical technicians who were reading the test results were unaware that they were subjects in an experiment.
(a) Technicians correctly identified 240 of the 250 patients with the condition. They also identified 50 of the healthy patients as having the condition. What were the false positive and false negative rates for the test?
(b) Given that a patient got a positive test result, what is the probability that the patient actually had the medical condition? Show your work.