A recent study showed that correctly administered rapid antigen tests (RATs) will return a positive result 65.3% of the time among patients that have a COVID infection. What is the implied false negative "rate" for these tests?Group of answer choices0.9990.3470.6530.001
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A recent study showed that correctly administered rapid antigen tests (RATs) will return a positive result 65.3% of the time among patients that have a COVID infection. What is the implied false negative "rate" for these tests?Group of answer choices0.9990.3470.6530.001
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The false negative rate is the proportion of positive instances that were erroneously labeled as negative. In this case, if the rapid antigen tests (RATs) correctly identify a COVID infection 65.3% of the time, this means that they fail to identify the infection 34.7% of the time. Therefore, the implied false negative rate for these tests is 0.347.
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