Concept explainers
To explain each of these terms to someone who knows no statistics.
Explanation of Solution
In the question, the report in the journal of the American Medical Association described the study as a double-blind, randomized and placebo controlled trial. Thus, each of these terms can be explained as:
A double blind experiment is one in which neither the subjects nor the individuals who measure know which treatment was received. Randomized means that subjects were randomly assigned to the groups. And the placebo-controlled means that there was a control group that only received a placebo.
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