Effective in detecting a disease

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A lab test is 95% effective in detecting a disease. The test gives a false positive (reports the patient has disease when they do not) for 1 % of the healthy population tested. If 0:5% of the population actually has the disease, what is the probability that a person has the disease given that the test result is positive.

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