Suppose you want to test the effectiveness of a certain drug for treating a disease-that is, you want to see if using the drug is better the standard treatment. You select 150 patients to give the drug, and 150 patients to give the standard treatment. Name at least five factors you should control for in your samples to make the test more random

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Suppose you want to test the effectiveness of a certain drug for treating a disease-that is, you want to see if using the drug is better the standard treatment. You select 150 patients to give the drug, and 150 patients to give the standard treatment. Name at least five factors you should control for in your samples to make the test more random

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Aurora Schwartz · Answer 1

The factors that are needed to be controlled are:

1. the date of manufacturing of the drug should be the same

2. the amount of drug should be the same

3. the time they will take the drug should be the same

4. the food they are taking should be the same

5. the activities they are doing should be the same