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The Academy of Sports Medicine Physicians is interested in determining whether a new training regimen will help long-distance runners improve their performance in marathons. This organization comes needs some advice on how to design an experiment to test whether this new regimen is more effective than the standard regimen. There is access to a sample of long-distance runners on the track teams at ten different universities. The hope is to conduct the experiment over the course of two years because the regimen takes a long time to learn and because new runners will be included in the sample as they join the track team. It is believed that the effect of the regimen on performance may differ for men and women.

I am confused on how exactly to design an experiment that uses a randomized approach to measure the effect of the new regimen on performance.

The design should take into account concerns about different effects for men and women and should be set up so that new subjects can be properly included in the experiment.

The experiment should address these concerns. Pay particular attention to the factors, explanatory and response variables, any blocks or matching characteristics, and the treatment conditions used in the experiment. A diagram should summarize the experimental design.