A clinical trial is run to investigate the effectiveness of an experimental drug in reducing high blood pressure in women to a drug considered standard care and to placebo. Women are enrolled and randomly assigned to receive either the experimental drug, the standard drug or placebo. Women are followed through for (< 37 weeks) or not. The data are shown below. Is there a statistically significant difference in the proportions of women having high blood pressure among the three treatment groups? Run the test at a 5% level of significance. Appropriate test? Decision Rule? Test Statistic?   Yes No Total Experimental Drug 7 33 40 Standard Drug 13 32 45 Placebo 17 18 35 Total 37 83 120

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A clinical trial is run to investigate the effectiveness of an experimental drug in reducing high blood pressure in women to a drug considered standard care and to placebo. Women are enrolled and randomly assigned to receive either the experimental drug, the standard drug or placebo. Women are followed through for (< 37 weeks) or not. The data are shown below. Is there a statistically significant difference in the proportions of women having high blood pressure among the three treatment groups? Run the test at a 5% level of significance. Appropriate test? Decision Rule? Test Statistic?

 
Yes
No
Total
Experimental Drug
7
33
40
Standard Drug
13
32
45
Placebo
17
18
35
Total
37
83
120
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