On August 24, 2010, a headline in The Boston Globe read“Researchers link chronic fatigue syndrome to class of virus”. The story reported on a study of 37 patients with the disease. 32 tested positive...

On August 24, 2010, a headline in The Boston Globe read“Researchers link chronic fatigue

syndrome to class of virus”. The story reported on a study of 37 patients with the disease. 32

tested positive for a particular suspicious virus. Only 3 of 44 healthy people tested positive.

A 2003 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine reported that“The over all...prevalence of

CFS...was 235 per 100,000 persons.”

a)Construct the contingency table for this diagnostic tool.

b)Explain why this test is potentially important for research on chronic fatigue syndrome

but might not be a good screening test.

Jun 08, 2022

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