Multiple Choice
The incidence of breast cancer varies depending on a woman's age. The National Cancer Institute gives the following probabilities for a randomly chosen woman in her 50s who takes a mammography to screen for breast cancer: The sensitivity of a screening test is the ability of the test to appropriately give a positive result when the person tested has a given disease. Which of the following is the correct notation for the sensitivity of a screening test?
A) P(Positive test | Disease)
B) P(Disease | Positive test)
C) P(Disease and Positive test)
D) P(Positive test or Disease)
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