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Old 06-15-2007, 08:10 PM
rose.82 rose.82 is offline
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Hi,
Oh, yes you are right 1-(.95^8)
Because you want at least one test positive ,it means 1 positive or 2 positive or 3 positive,... .
(.95^8) means all cases are negative and 1-(.95^8) means you calculate all situations except all negative.
You can't use 0.5^8 because this means all tests positive not at least one positive.
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