MATH 225N Week 4 Discussion: Probability

Consider when you are listening to a new patient who says they have had a fever for 3 days. You would use your knowledge and experience … with probability to come to a diagnosis. What changes those probabilities? Is it age, is it other symptoms, is it new study results? What is the source of these probabilities and what causes these … probabilities to change? This discussion is not to debate diagnoses, but to focus on the sources and influences on probabilities.