Effectiveness Of New Medication In Eliminating Pain Background Consider The Data
4.b. Calculate the risk difference for pain eliminated under med #2 vs med #1 (Risk[med2] – Risk[med1]) and its 95% confidence interval.
4.c. Calculate the risk ratio for pain eliminated under med #2 vs med #1 (Risk[med2] / Risk[med1]) and its 95% confidence interval.
4.d. Calculate the odds ratio for pain eliminated under med #2 vs med #1 (Odds[med2] / Odds[med1]) and its 95% confidence interval.
4.e. Does the odds ratio appear to be a good estimate of the risk ratio? Why or why not?
4.f. What are the null and alternative hypotheses?
4.g. What is the value of the chi-square test of homogeneity statistic for these data? (This can be obtained either by Σ[(O-E)2 / E] or by the special formula for 2×2 tables; they are equivalent.)
4.h. What is the critical value for the chi-square test? (use α = 0.05 significance level)
4.i. Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Why?
4.j. Provide full-sentence answers to the research questions stated above.
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