Introduction to Experimental Design

AP Statistics· difficulty 2/5

A drug trial assigns 50 patients to the drug and 50 to placebo, rather than 1 to each.

Using many subjects in each group is an example of which experimental principle?

  • A

    Blocking

  • B

    Replication

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  • C

    Random assignment

  • D

    Blinding

Explanation

Replication is the use of multiple experimental units in each treatment group, which provides estimates of variability and increases reliability.

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