DrMartinez Is Doing a Research Study Examining the Effects of a New

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Dr.Martinez is doing a research study examining the effects of a new headache medication on migraine pain.He decides to divide his participants up into four subject groups,each one of which will receive a different amount of medication to take when they have a migraine.He will ask them to write down their assessment of how much the pain has dropped on a ten-point scale an hour after taking the medication.What is the independent variable in this study?

• A) The intensity of the migraine each participant has before taking the medication.
• B) The amount of medication each participant takes.
• C) The level of pain reduction reported by each participant.
• D) The number of people who are assigned to each of the subject groups.

Evaluate the distributions of data sets based on given summary statistics.

Understand the significance of outliers in a data set and how they affect measures of central tendency and spread.

Differentiate between symmetric and asymmetric (skewed) distributions.

Calculate and interpret measures of center and spread from stem-and-leaf plots and histograms.

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