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STAT110
Lecture #9 - 9/18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| individuals studied in an experiment | subjects |
| any specific experimental condition applied to the subjects; everything you're getting | treatment |
| variable that measures outcome or result of a study; what you're trying to measure | response variable (dependent variable) |
| variable that we think explains or causes changes | explanatory variable (independent variable) |
| variable that has important effect on variables in the study, but isn't one of the explanatory variables studied; "behind the scenes" | lurking variable |
| when effects on a response variable cannot be distinguished from each other; either explanatory or lurking | confounding |
| dummy treatment with no active ingredients (common for medical experiments) | placebo |
| response of the patients to placebo | placebo effect |
| comparing effects of two or more treatments by randomly assigning subjects to the different treatment groups | randomized comparative experiment |
| observed effect so large it would rarely occur by chance; don't believe it would happen by accident | statistical significance |