Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
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Author: Bennett
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 10CQ
In Exercises 6–10, consider a clinical trial designed to determine whether daily doses of 81-mg aspirin tablets have any effect on pulse rates. One group of subjects is given daily doses of 81-mg aspirin tablets and a second group is given daily doses of placebo tablets.
- 10. If all subjects in the aspirin treatment group are athletes and all subjects in the control group are not athletes, then there is a danger of which of the following: (a) samples that are too small; (b) confounding; (c) blinding.
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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
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