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ISBN: 9780321826275
Author: Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17.2, Problem 2JC
An allergy drug has been tested and found to give relief to 75% of the patients in a large clinical trial. Now the scientists want to see if the new, improved version works even better. What would the null hypothesis be?
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