Question: The article Term Efficacy of Ribavirin Plus Interferon Alfa in the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C, [Gastroenterology (1996, Vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 13071312)], considered
The article “Term Efficacy of Ribavirin Plus Interferon Alfa in the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C,” [Gastroenterology (1996, Vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 1307–1312)], considered the effect of two treatments and a control for treatment of hepatitis C. The following table provides the total patients in each group and the number that showed a complete (positive) response after 24 weeks of treatment.
Let A denote the event that the patient is treated with ribavirin plus interferon alfa, and let B denote the event that the response is complete. Determine the following probabilities:
(a) P(B | A)
(b) P(A | B)
(c) P(A | B')
(d) P(A' | B)
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