Monday, October 10, 2022

Bay’s Theorem: A Construction Company finds that an experienced machine operator of its company (one or more years of experience) will produce a defective item 1.5% of the time. Operators with some experience (up to one year) will produce a 2.5% defective rate and new operators will produce a 5% defective rate. The company has 65% experienced employees, 25% with some experience and 10% new employees. Find the probability that i. Experienced operator of a company produced a particular defective item. ii. Operator with some experience of a company produced a particular defective item. iii. New operator of a company produced a particular defective item.

 

Q# Bay’s Theorem: A Construction Company finds that an experienced machine operator of its company (one or more years of experience) will produce a defective item 1.5% of the time. Operators with some experience (up to one year) will produce a 2.5% defective rate and new operators will produce a 5% defective rate. The company has 65% experienced employees, 25% with some experience and 10% new employees. Find the probability that

 

i.                    Experienced operator of a company produced a particular defective item.          

ii.                  Operator with some experience of a company produced a particular defective item. 

iii.                New operator of a company produced a particular defective item.                       

 

 let’s create some events to work with.

 

D: “operator produces a defective item”

E: “experienced operator”
S: “operator with some experience”
N: “new operator”

 

With these definitions, the information in the problem statement can be written as

P(E) = 0.65

P(D/E) = 0.015

P(S) = 0.25

P(D/S) = 0.025

P(N) = 0.1

P(D/N) = 0.05

 

 The probability that an experience operator produces a defective item, we are interested in the event E and D. These probabilities lie along the top branch so

P(E and D) = P(D/E) P(E) = (0.015)(0.65)

                                                 = 0.0097

                                                  =0.97%    Answer

 

To find the probability that a particular defective item was produced by a Experienced operator, we need to compute P(E | D). The appropriate form of Baye’s Theorem is

                                                                 =

                                                                  = 0.4642

                                                                   = 46.42%    Answer

 

To find the probability that a particular defective item was produced by a Some Experienced operator, we need to compute P(S | D). The appropriate form of Baye’s Theorem is

                                                                 =

                                                                  = 0.2976

                                                                   = 29.76%  Answer


To find the probability that a particular defective item was produced by aNew operator, we need to compute P(N | D). The appropriate form of Baye’s Theorem is

 

                                                                         P

                                                                 =

                                                                  = 0.2381

                                                                   = 23.81%     Answer

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