When you have a cold, friends and family will often tell you to take your medicine and drink lots of fluids. A study is to be conducted to determine the effect of three beverages (orange juice, hot tea or ginger ale) and two cough syrups (Buckleys or Robitussin) on the recovery time of cold sufferers. Researchers locate 60 cold sufferers who will participate in the experiment. Each cold sufferer will be randomly assigned one of the treatments.

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When you have a cold, friends and family will often tell you to take your medicine and drink lots of fluids. A study is to be conducted to determine the effect of three beverages (orange juice, hot tea or ginger ale) and two cough syrups (Buckleys or Robitussin) on the recovery time of cold sufferers. Researchers locate 60 cold sufferers who will participate in the experiment.  Each cold sufferer will be randomly assigned one of the treatments.

anonymous · Answer

What type of experiment is this?

anonymous · Answer

Blind study, double blind study if the researchers don't know who is taking what

anonymous · Answer

what are the experimental units in this experiment.

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

types of medicine and types of cough syrup

anonymous · Answer

Suppose that responses for one of the treatment groups are significantly more favourable than for other treatment groups.  Can we say that the treatment is likely the cause? Explain.

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

not necessarily because it could have been a result of the fluid the person was taking at the time

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

sorry for my answer at the time I meant to say types of beverages and types of cough syrup.

anonymous · Answer

Suppose that responses for one of the treatment groups are significantly more favourable than for other treatment groups.  Can we say that the treatment is likely the cause? Explain.

anonymous · Answer

i dont understand that one could you explain it bit more in detail?

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

it would be more likely that but as long as there is another contributing factor, you cannot say for sure that the favorable results is a result of the medication

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

what is it that you do not understand?

anonymous · Answer

ok ` i got it ` now its clear

anonymous · Answer

so there are 6 treatments right?

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

yes that is correct congrats

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

awesome do i get a medal?

anonymous · Answer

one more question

anonymous · Answer

what are the response variables in this experiment

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

The response variables would be the treatments versus rate of recovery

anonymous · Answer

factor levels in this experiment ?

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

okay so there is rob. and orange juice, rob. and hot tea, rob. and ginger ale, Buck. and orange juice, Buck. and hot tea, and Buck and ginger ale. There 6 different factor levels in this experiment

anonymous · Answer

ok ` thank you very much `

jamierox4ev3r · Answer

any time ! ;)