A clinical trial is conducted comparing a new pain medication for arthritis. Participants are randomly assigned to receive the new medication or a placebo.
A clinical trial is conducted comparing a new pain medication for
arthritis. Participants are randomly assigned to receive the new medication or a placebo. The outcome is pain relief within 30 minutes. The data are shown below.
Pain Relief No Pain Relief
New Medication 44 76
Placebo 21 99
Estimate the risk difference in pain relief between treatments
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Estimate the relative risk in pain relief between treatments
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Estimate the odds ratio in pain relief between treatments
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The upper and lower limits of the are shown below
Lower Limit of CI: _______
Upper Limit of CI: ________
Based on the Confidence Interval values which of the following are true?
A. One can be 95% confident that the true value will be greater than the upper limit.
B. One can be 95% confident that the true value will be greater than the lower limit.
C. One can be 95% confident that the true value will between the upper and lower limit.
D. a and b