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MAT 210: Introductory Statistics: Experiments and Observational Studies

Experiments and Observational Studies

This section shows the difference between a study and an experiment.

Vocabulary

Experiment - the researcher controls one or more of the explanatory variables.

Observational Study - the researcher does not control the value of any variable but simply observes the values as they exist.

Randomized Experiment - the value of the explanatory variable for each unit is determined randomly, before the response variable is measured. 

Randomized Comparative Experiment - randomly assign cases to different treatment groups and then compare results on the response variables.

Match Pairs Experiment - each case gets both treatments in random order, and we examine individual differences in the response variable between the two treatments.

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Problems 1.76 - 1.79

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