Let's Assume You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine the Effect

question 71

Multiple Choice

Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The number of seizures for each of the 20 subjects constitutes _________.

• A) the dependent variable
• B) data
• C) a statistic
• D) the independent variable

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A military conflict between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815, primarily due to issues over trade restrictions and impressment of American sailors by the British Navy.

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