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| A controlled study conducted to determine the effect of varying one or more explanatory variables or factors has on a response variable |
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| Any combination of the values of the factors |
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| In an experiment, is a person, object, or some other well-defined item upon which a treatment is applied |
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| An experimental unit that is a person |
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| A baseline treatment that can be used to compare to the other treatments |
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| An innocuous medication presented as the experimental medication |
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| Nondisclosure of the treatment an experimental unit is receiving |
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| An experiment in which the experimental unit does not know which treatment he/she is receiving |
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| An experiment in which the neither the experimental unit nor the researcher know which treatment the experimental unit is receiving |
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| To describe the overall plan in conducting an experiment |
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| 6 steps in the process of conducting an experiment |
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1. Identify the problem to be solved
2. Determine the factors that affect the response variable
3. Determine the number of experimental units
4. Determine the level of each factor
5. Conduct the experiment
6. Test the claim |
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| When each treatment is applied to more than one experimental unit |
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| The process in which generalizations about a population are made on the basis of results obtained from a sample |
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| Completely randomized design |
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| A design in which each experimental unit is randomly assigned to a treatment |
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| An experimental design in which the experimental units are paired up |
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| Grouping similar (homogenous) experimental units together and then randomizing the experimental units within each group to a treatment |
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| Each group of homogenous individuals |
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| When the effect of two factors (explanatory variables) on the response variable cannot be distinguished |
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| An experimental design used when the experimental units are divided into homogenous groups called blocks and then randomly assigned to treatments |
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