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What Is a Placebo Group and Why Is It Important

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What is a placebo group and why is it important to include such a group in a multigroup design?


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Standard Error

A measure that describes the distribution of sample means around the population mean in a sampling distribution.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; indicates how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

Variability

A measure of how much scores in a data set differ from each other and from the mean, indicating the spread or dispersion of the data points.

Sample Means

The arithmetic average of a set of values or measurements taken from a sample of a larger population.

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