In an article that appears on a website,† Carlton Gunn, a public defender in Seattle, Washington, wrote about how he uses statistics in his work as an attorney. He states the following. I personally have used statistics in trying to challenge the reliability of drug testing results. Suppose the chance of a mistake in the taking and processing of a urine sample f

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In an article that appears on a website,† Carlton Gunn, a public defender in Seattle, Washington, wrote about how he uses statistics in his work as an attorney. He states the following.
I personally have used statistics in trying to challenge the reliability of drug testing results. Suppose the chance of a mistake in the taking and processing of a urine sample for a drug test is just 1 in 100. And your client has a "dirty" (i.e., positive) test result. Only a 1 in 100 chance that it could be wrong? Not necessarily. If the vast majority of all tests given—say 99 in 100—are truly clean, then you get one false dirty and one true dirty in every 100 tests, so that half of the dirty tests are false.
Define the following events as given below.
  • TD = event that the test result is dirty
  • TC = event that the test result is clean
  • D = event that the person tested is actually dirty
  • C = event that the person tested is actually clean
(a)
Using the information in the quote, compute the following values.
(i)
P(TD|D)
 
(ii)
P(TD|C)
 
(iii)
P(C)
 
(iv)
P(D)
 
(b)
Use the probabilities from part (a) to construct a hypothetical 1,000 table. (Round your answers to the nearest integer.)
  TD TC Total
D      
C      
Total     1,000
(c)
What is the value of 
P(TD)
 based on the table values?
 
(d)
Use the information in the table to calculate the probability that a person is clean given that the test result is dirty, 
P(C|TD).
 
Is this value consistent with the argument given in the quote? Explain.
Yes, this value is consistent with the argument given in the quote, namely, half of the dirty tests are false.No, this value is not consistent with the argument given in the quote, namely, half of the dirty tests are false.    
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