An article in The Boston Globe headlined “Surgery offers no advantage for early prostate cancer, study finds” reported on a clinical trial involving 731 men diagnosed with prostate cancer. About half had surgery; the rest were monitored. After 12 years, nearly 6 percent of men who had immediate surgery died of the cancer, compared with slightly more than 8 percent of those patients who were observed, which was not a great enough difference to reach statistical significance. About how many men were in each category?

An article in The Boston Globe headlined “Surgery offers no advantage for early prostate cancer, study finds” reported on a clinical trial involving 731 men diagnosed with prostate cancer. About half had surgery; the rest were monitored. After 12 years, nearly 6 percent of men who had immediate surgery died of the cancer, compared with slightly more than 8 percent of those patients who were observed, which was not a great enough difference to reach statistical significance. About how many men were in each category?

Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter4: Equations Of Linear Functions

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