A pharmaceutical laboratory has just developed a new anti-doping test.
Part A
A study on this new test gives the following results:
- if an athlete is doped, the probability that the test result is positive is 0.98 (test sensitivity);
- if an athlete is not doped, the probability that the test result is negative is 0.995 (test specificity).
The test is administered to an athlete selected at random from among the participants in an athletics competition. We denote by $D$ the event ``the athlete is doped'' and $T$ the event ``the test is positive''. We assume that the probability of event $D$ is equal to 0.08.
- Represent the situation in the form of a probability tree.
- Prove that $P ( T ) = 0.083$.
- a. Given that an athlete presents a positive test, what is the probability that he is doped? b. The laboratory decides to market the test if the probability of the event ``an athlete presenting a positive test is doped'' is greater than or equal to 0.95. Will the test proposed by the laboratory be marketed? Justify.
Part B
In a sporting competition, we assume that the probability that a tested athlete presents a positive test is 0.103.
- In this question 1., we assume that the organizers decide to test 5 athletes selected at random from among the athletes in this competition. We denote by $X$ the random variable equal to the number of athletes presenting a positive test among the 5 tested athletes. a. Give the distribution followed by the random variable $X$. Specify its parameters. b. Calculate the expectation $E ( X )$ and interpret the result in the context of the exercise. c. What is the probability that at least one of the 5 tested athletes presents a positive test?
- How many athletes must be tested at minimum so that the probability of the event ``at least one tested athlete presents a positive test'' is greater than or equal to 0.75? Justify.