Statistics - the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data in order to make decisions
Treatment - applied to a group called the treatment group
Control group - receives no treatment
Placebo - a harmless, fake treatment that is made to look like the real treatm...
Statistics - ✅✅ the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting
data in order to make decisions
Treatment - ✅✅ applied to a group called the treatment group
Control group - ✅✅ receives no treatment
Placebo - ✅✅ a harmless, fake treatment that is made to look like the real
treatment
Simulation - ✅✅ the use of a mathematical or physical model to reproduce the
conditions of a situation or process
Survey - ✅✅ an investigation of one or more characteristics of a population
Confounding variable - ✅✅ occurs when an experimenter cannot tell the
difference between the effects of different factors on the variable
Blinding - ✅✅ a technique where the subjects do not know whether they are
receiving a treatment or a placebo
Double - ✅✅ blind experiment- neither the experimenter nor the subjects know if
the subjects are receiving a treatment or a placebo
Randomization - ✅✅ a process of randomly assigning subjects to different
treatment groups
Sample size - ✅✅ the number of subjects in a study
Replication - ✅✅ the repetition of an experiment under the same or similar
conditions
Census - ✅✅ a count or measure of an entire population
Sampling - ✅✅ a count or measure of part of a population
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