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ISBN: 9780321989178

Author: Neil A. Weiss

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 4.5, Problem 144E

HPV Vaccine. In the article “Correlates for Completion of 3-dose Regimen of HPV Vaccine in Female Members of a Managed Care Organization” (Mayo Clinical Proceedings, Vol. 84. pp. 864– 870), C. Chao et al. examined characteristics that may influence whether young female patients complete a three-injection sequence of the Gardasil quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV4). HPV is a virus that has been linked to the development of cervical cancer. The following joint probability distribution summarizes completion of treatment versus practice type.

Chapter 4.5, Problem 144E, HPV Vaccine. In the article Correlates for Completion of 3-dose Regimen of HPV Vaccine in Female

For a patient in the study selected at random, find the following probabilities and interpret your results in terms of percentages.

a. P(C₁)
b. P(T₂)
c. P(C₁ &T₂)
d. P(C₁ | T₂)
e. P(T₂ |C₁)

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