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A company would like to develop a drug that will help people lose weight by inhibiting the digestion and consequently absorption of carbohydrates. Which enzymes should they target and why? Where in the digestive tract does the drug need to work? What would you expect some potential side-effects to be?


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Type I Errors

Incorrectly disapproving a correct null hypothesis, famously labeled as a "false positive."

Cohen's D

A statistical measure used to assess the effect size or magnitude of the difference between two group means.

Effect

The impact or change that results from some action or intervention, often measured in experiments to understand causality.

Cohen's D

A measure of effect size indicating the difference between two means expressed in standard deviation units.

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