You would like to investigate whether smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to get lung cancer. You take the students in your class, select half at random and tell them to smoke a pack of cigarettes each day, and you tell the other half not to ever smoke. Fifty years from now, you will analyze whether more smokers than nonsmokers got lung cancer. Is this an experiment or an observational study? O Experiment O Observational Study Summarize at least three practical difficulties with this planned study.
You would like to investigate whether smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to get lung cancer. You take the students in your class, select half at random and tell them to smoke a pack of cigarettes each day, and you tell the other half not to ever smoke. Fifty years from now, you will analyze whether more smokers than nonsmokers got lung cancer. Is this an experiment or an observational study? O Experiment O Observational Study Summarize at least three practical difficulties with this planned study.
Chapter9: Sequences, Probability And Counting Theory
Section9.7: Probability
Problem 3SE: What is an experiment?
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Transcribed Image Text:You would like to investigate whether smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to get lung cancer. You take
the students in your class, select half at random and tell them to smoke a pack of cigarettes each day, and
you tell the other half not to ever smoke. Fifty years from now, you will analyze whether more smokers
than nonsmokers got lung cancer. Is this an experiment or an observational study?
O Experiment
O Observational Study
Summarize at least three practical difficulties with this planned study.
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