Compute revised probabilities of a successful racquetball fa
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Mark Martinko has been a class A racquetball payer for the past five years, and one of his biggest goals is to own and operate a racquetball facility. Unfortunately, Market thinks that the change of a successful racquetball facility is only 30%. Mark's lawyer has recommended that he employ one of the local marketing research groups to conduct a survey concerning the success or failure of a racquetball facility. There is a 0.8 probability that the research will be favorable given a successful racquetball facility. In addition, there is a 0.7 probability that the research will be unfavorable given an unsuccessful facility. Compute revised probabilities of a successful racquetball facility given a favorable and given an unfavorable survey.
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This post explains how to calculate the probability of success or failure given the survey outcome. The illustrates the use of Bayes theorem and conditional probabilities to calculate the post-hoc probabilities.
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Let S=Successful racquetball facility
F= Unsuccessful racquetball facility
P=Favorable survey
U=Unfavorable Survey
Given P(S)=0.30 P(P/S)=0.80 and P(U/F)=0.7
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