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Question: The success rates of two treatments (A and B) for clinical depression are being compared. The research team included five doctors, and the participants were 200 patients with depression. The doctors were supposed to randomly assign treatments to patients, but two doctors didn't do this. Instead, they often assigned more severely depressed patients to use treatment A and less severely depressed patients to use treatment B.
a. Three variables measured by the investigators were the outcome of treatment (successful or not), method of treatment (A or B), and a rating of the initial severity of the depression (mild or severe). Which of these variables is the response variable in this investigation?
b. The doctors were surprised by the final result, which was that treatment B had a higher success rate than treatment A. Based on results attained by other investigators, they had expected the opposite to occur. Explain how the actions of the two doctors who did not always randomly assign treatments may have caused an unfair comparison of the two treatments.
c. Taking Example into consideration, describe how the researchers might control for the effect of the initial severity of patient depression when they analyze the relationship between treatment method and outcome.
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