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Neither the subject nor those who measure the reponse variable know which treatment a subject received.
What is a double-blind experiment?
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P-value = 0.001

What is "Assuming the null is true, there is only a 1 in 1000 chance of seeing a test statistic as extreme as or more extreme than the one we observed (in the direction(s) of the alternative)

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How to identify outliers for univariate data

What is X < Q1 - 1.5(IQR) or x > Q3 + 1.5(IQR)?

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This is The General Multiplication Rule

P(A and B) = P(A)*P(B|A)

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The critical value for an 80% confidence interval for a population mean using a sample size of 30 

What is invT(0.9 , 29) or invT(0.1 , 29)?

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A form of blocking in which each block has exactly two experimental units.

What is matched pairs?

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Power of a hypothesis test is 0.3 when the population mean is 35 and the alternative says the population mean is greater than 28.

What is "Assuming the mean is 35, there is a 30% chance that the test will correctly reject the null hypothesis"?

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This is the primary condition that must be satisfied in order to infer cause and effect in an experiment.

What is random assignment?

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This is The General Addition Rule

What is P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)?

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The probability of at least 8 successes in 12 trials given a probability of success of 45%.

 1-binomcdf(12,.45,7)?

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A form of bias that occurs when the wording or format of questioning systematically leads to inaccurate survey results.

What is response bias?

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A z-score of -3.45
What is "The data value is 3.45 standard deviations below the mean"?
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The Probability definition of Events A and B being Independent

What is P(B|A) = P(B) or P(A|B) = P(A)?

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This is the formula for Probability of A given B

P(A|B) = P(A and B) / P(B)

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The z value for the 80th percentile on a normal distribution.

 invNorm(.8,0,1 LEFT)?

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The population is divided into groups. A certain number of these groups are randomly selected, and all individuals in the chosen groups are sampled.

What is cluster sampling?

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95% Confidence level for a proportion

What "This interval was created using methods that capture the true population proportion 95% of the time"?

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This is the primary condition that must be satisfied in order for the results of a study to be generalized to a population.

What is a random sample from the population of interest?

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The formula for finding the probability of obtaining the first success on the 5th trial when P(success) = p.

What is P(X=5) = p(1-p)^4

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The probability of obtaining the first success on the 12th trial when the probability of success is 0.2

What is geometpdf(0.2 , 12)?

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The population is divided into groups. From each of these groups, a sample is selected.

What is stratified sampling?

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95% confidence interval (-4.25, -1.33) for the difference of two means (mean #1 - mean #2).

We are 95% confident that the interval (-4.25 , -1.33) captures the true difference in population means (population 1 - population 2)

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standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample means

What is the population standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size?

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The formula for finding 10 successes in 15 trials with P(success)=p.

What is P(X=10) = (15 C 10)*p^10*(1-p)^5

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Generate 5 random integers from 1 to 100.

What is RandInt(1, 100, 5)