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Exercises 33 through 36 refer to the following story: The manufacturer of a new vitamin (vitamin X) decides to sponsor a study to determine the vitamin's effectiveness in curing the common cold. Five hundred college students having a cold were recruited from colleges in the San Diego area and were paid to participate as subjects in this study. The subjects were each given two tablets of vitamin X a day. Based on information provided by the subjects themselves,
List four different problems with the study that indicate poor design.
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Excursions in Modern Mathematics (9th Edition)
- Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897...AlgebraISBN:9780079039897Author:CarterPublisher:McGraw Hill