Chapter 12, Problem AP4.35CPT

To determine

To find out this design can be described as.

Answer to Problem AP4.35CPT

Option (a) is the correct option.

Explanation of Solution

In a clinical trial, patients with a certain blood disease are randomly assigned to two groups. A double blind experiment is one in which neither the subjects nor the individuals who measure know which treatment was received, while in the single blind experiment either the individuals who measure or the subjects know which treatment was received. The patients have been randomly assigned to the groups and an experiment deliberately imposes some treatment on individuals in order to observe their responses i.e. completely randomized experiment with treatments the two types of medicine. Thus, option (a) is the correct option.