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From an Ethical Standpoint, Describe the Arguments for and Against

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From an ethical standpoint, describe the arguments for and against the use of control groups in, for example, a study that evaluated the effects of giving nursing home patients some additional control over their lives (e.g., giving them a plant to care for).


Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a given level of confidence.

Standard Error

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a sample statistic from the population parameter it estimates.

Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the number of terms in the set.

Confidence Interval

An interval of values, derived from statistics gathered from a sample, expected to cover the value of a hidden parameter in a population.

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