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Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common wrist complaint resulting from a compressed nerve, and it is often the result of extended use of repetitive wrist movements, such as those associated with the use of a keyboard. In a randomized controlled trial, 73 patients were treated with surgery and 67 were found to have successful treatments. Among 83 patients treated with splints, 60 were found to have successful treatments (based on data from “Splinting vs Surgery in the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.” by Gerritsen et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 288, No. 10). Use the accompanying StatCrunch display with a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the success rate is better with surgery.
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- Football and Brain SizeA study examines a possible relationship of football playing and concussions on hippocampus volume, in μL, in the brain. The study included three groups: controls who had never played football (Control), football players with no history of concussions (FBNoConcuss), and football players with a history of concussions (FBConcuss). The data is available in FootballBrain, and the side-by-side boxplots shown below indicate that the conditions for using the F-distribution appear to be met. b) Use technology to construct an ANOVA table. What is the F-statistic? What is the p-value? Round your answer for the F-statistic to two decimal places, and your answer for the p-value to three decimal places.F-statistic = ?p-value = ? Group Hipp LeftHipp Years Cogniton Control 6175 2945 0 Control 6220 3075 0 Control 6360 3125 0 Control 6465 3160 0 Control 6540 3205 0 Control 6780 3340 0…arrow_forwardThe paper "Supervised Exercise Versus Non-Supervised Exercise for Reducing Weight in Obese Adults† describes an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned either to a supervised exercise program or a control group. Those in the control group were told that they should take measures to lose weight. Those in the supervised exercise group were told they should take measures to lose weight as well, but they also participated in regular supervised exercise sessions. Weight loss (in kilograms) at the end of four months was recorded. Data consistent with summary quantities given in the paper are shown in the accompanying table. ***Find the test statistic and P-valuearrow_forwardA cross-sectional study of 1,900 participants looked at the association between Normal Course Load (12-15 credit hours (CH)) and Anxiety among upperclassmen college students (Junior & Senior). The study included 1,000 students with a High Course Load. This study also discovered a total of 850 cases of Anxiety. Of those with a Normal course load 12% were diagnosed with anxiety like symptoms by a school psychologist. Course Load High (16-19 CH) Normal (12-15 CH) Total 850 Yes Anxiety 1050 No 1000 900 1900 Total Fill in every blank cell in the table. You will report them as "fill in the blanks" below based on the labels in the table.arrow_forward
- A randomized clinical trial is designed to study the efficacy of medication “X” to treat attention deficit disorder in individuals. Researchers are interested to make comparisons among different age groups. An initial pool of 1000 subjects (taking medication X) was selected. These subjects were then grouped by age (6-10 yr olds, n=300; 10- 14 yr olds, n= 400; and 14- 18 yr old, n= 300). A random sample of n= 300 was selected as study participants from the three age groups to represent the original distribution of these age groups in the N=1000 individuals. Please identify the type of sampling used in this study. Systematic random sampling Stratified random sampling Simple random samplingarrow_forwardCalcium and Blood Pressure Does increasing the amount of calcium in our diet reduce blood pressure? Examination of a large sample of people revealed a relationship between calcium intake and blood pressure. Such observational studies do not establish causation. Researchers therefore designed a randomized comparative experiment. The subjects were 21 healthy men who volunteered to take part in the experiment. They were randomly assigned to two groups: 10 of the men received a calcium supplement for 12 weeks, while the control group of 11 men received a placebo pill that looked identical. The experiment was double-blind. The response variable is the decrease in systolic (top number) blood pressure for a subject after 12 weeks, in millimeters of mercury. An increase appears as a negative number. Do the data provide convincing evidence that a calcium supplement reduces blood pressure more than a placebo, on average, for subjects like the ones in this study? Group 1 (calcium) Group (placebo)…arrow_forwardA researcher studied iron-deficiency anemia in women in each of two developing countries. Differences in the dietary habits between the two countries led the researcher to believe that anemia is less prevalent among women in the first country than among women in the second country. A random sample of 2400 women from the first country yielded 461 women with anemia, and an independently chosen, random sample of 2200 women from the second country yielded 440 women with anemia. Based on the study can we conclude, at the 0.10 level of significance, that the proportion p₁ of women with anemia in the first country is less than the proportion p₂ of women with anemia in the second country? Perform a one-tailed test. Then complete the parts below. Carry your intermediate computations to three or more decimal places and round your answers as specified in the parts below. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.) (a) State the null hypothesis Ho and the alternative hypothesis H₁. μ Р Ho :O H₁ :0…arrow_forward
- Until 2002, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), estrogen and/or progesterone, was commonly prescribed to post-menopausal women. This changed in 2002, when the results of a large clinical trial were published 7500 women were randomized to take HRT, 7100 were randomized to placebo. 170 HRT and 130 placebo women developed invasive breast cancer. Does HRT increase risk of breast cancer? Conduct hypothesis test. Hint: Use randomization distribution to answer the question.arrow_forwardA case–control study of patients on antihypertensive drugs related an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) for patients using calcium channel blockers (Psaty, et al.,1995). In this study, cases were antihypertensive drug patients who had suffered a first fatal or nonfatal MI through 1993, and controls were antihypertensive patients, matched by demographic factors, who had not suffered a MI. Among the comparisons reported were patients receiving calcium channel (CC) blockers (with and without diuretics) and patients receiving β–blockers (with and without diuretics). Results of numbers of patient by drug/MI status combination are given in Table 1. Compute the odds ratio of suffering MI (CC blockers relative to β–blockers), and the corresponding 95% CI. Does it appear that calcium channel blockers are associated with higher odds (and thus probability) of suffering MI than β –blockers? Table 1: Observed cell counts for antihypertensive drug/MI data Occurrence of…arrow_forwardAccording to a research study, people are able to better manage their time when they wear watches than when they use mobile phones or other gadgets to keep track of time. To test this, 300 college students were randomized into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group was asked to wear a watch every day, and the control group was asked to avoid wearing a watch for 50 days. The number of occasions when students from both groups arrived later than their scheduled time was noted. The results of the experiment showed that the mean score of the treatment group was exactly 15 points less than the mean score of the control group. To test whether the results could be explained by random chance, the researchers created the following table, which summarizes the results of 1,000 randomizations of the data with differences of means rounded to the nearest 5 points. Consider the significance level to be set at 5%, so results lower than 5% can be considered statistically significant.…arrow_forward
- College Algebra (MindTap Course List)AlgebraISBN:9781305652231Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff HughesPublisher:Cengage Learning