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In Exercises 33–36, identify which of these designs is most appropriate for the given experiment: completely randomized design, randomized block design, or matched pairs design

Lipitor A clinical trial of Lipitor treatments is being planned to determine whether its effects on diastolic blood pressure are different for men and women.

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The most appropriate experimental design for the given data is a randomized block design.

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Given information

A clinical trial is performed to analyze the effectiveness of the treatment of Lipitor on the diastolic blood pressure for men and women.

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Types of experimental designs

A completely randomized design helps in studying experiments that can be randomly assigned to any unit.

A randomized block design helps in studying experiments that have blocks with similar units clustered in them.

A matched pairs design helps in studying experiments that have two effects to be studied on the same set of subjects.

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Identification of the type of design

As the experimental set-up comprises two different blocks of people, men and women, a randomized block design will be the most appropriate to determine the effect of the treatment of Lipitor on the diastolic blood pressure level.

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