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MATH 147
Chapter 1 & 2 Vocabulary
- Treatment
- Comparison
- Basic method for assessing effectiveness of
treatment
- Treatment group
- Those subjects receiving treatment
- Control group
- Those subjects not receiving treatment
- Assigned at random
- Subjects have equal chance of assignment to
either group
- Double blind
- Neither Doctors evaluating progress nor
subjects know who is in which group
- Confounded
- Effect of treatment is confused with other
factors
- Randomized Controlled Experiment
- Impartial chance mechanism is used to assign
subjects to treatment & controls with equal likelihood
- Placebo
- Neutral substance given to control group
- Control
- is a subject who did not Get the treatment
- Controlled Study
- Investigators decide which subjects go in which
group
- Association
- A link between two factors
- Adherers
- Subjects who took more than 80% of their
medicine
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