If You Want to Compare Two Populations That Each Have

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Essay

If you want to compare two populations that each have two categories,which test(s)can you use?

Understand the pharmacokinetics of drugs, including absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.

Identify and respond to adverse drug reactions and toxicities.

Manage and interpret the therapeutic ranges of drugs and adjust doses accordingly.

Understand and identify side effects of medications.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A cadre of values, from the statistical evaluation of samples, that is designed to encircle the value of an undetermined parameter within a population.

Level of Confidence

The degree of certainty, often expressed as a percentage, that a parameter lies within a specified range of values.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition is true for the entire population.

Interval Estimation

Estimation of a population parameter with a range, or interval, of values within which one has a certain degree of confidence the population parameter falls.