14. A newly proposed endoscopy method used to screen for colon cancer is tested

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14. A newly proposed endoscopy method used to screen for colon cancer is tested among a random sample of the population. Given that 16 individuals from a test population of 100,000 individuals has colon cancer and 14 individuals test positive for colon cancer, the researchers should determine the sensitivity of the newly proposed screening method is .875. 15. A newly developed medical procedure to prevent death in women who give birth and experience eclampsia has a 97.5% success rate of saving the woman's life. If a doctor uses this medical procedure in 6 women who experience eclampsia and have no other comorbid conditions, the probability that all 6 women will survive is approximately 0.859. 16. The mean measure of high density lipoprotein (HDL), or good cholesterol, is 54 with a standard deviation of 17 in patients over age 50. If the HDL values are obtained from a sample of 32 individuals, the probability of getting a mean HDL value over 62 is 0.049.

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14) True

as 14/16=0.875

so that we can say that sensitivity of the tedt is 0.875

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