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- Consider (page 18, Yost) set B to categorize health of people
and set A to be results of unreliable test.
- B has two possible results.
- Consider the situation with A = ``Test Positive''
- Bayes gives for
or 
- Apply separately
, or 
, i.e.,
and 
.
- Then given data proposed by Yost
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu