SOME STATISTICAL TREATMENTS COMPATIBLE WITH INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM METHODOLOGY.

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Abstract:

Consider experimental treatments with consequences so irreversible that baseline performance cannot be recovered. The conventional method of assessing the effects of such treatments by statistical means involves separate experimental and control groups. An alternative proposed here is to administer the experimental treatment to each subject, one subject at a time and in a random order whenever any subject receives the experimental treatment, those subjects which have not yet received it receive a control treatment. This procedure permits results significant at the one-tailed .05 level to be obtained with four subjects if a two-group procedure evaluated by means of the U test is used, a minimum of six subjects is needed for the same significance level. Author

Author(s):
Revusky, Samuel H.
Author Organization(s):
ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT KNOX KY
Descriptive Note:
Progress rept.,
Supplementary Note:
Rept. on proj. Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation on Performance.
Pagination:
0049

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

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Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
USAMRL-716
Project Number(s):
DA-3-A-013001-A-91-C
 Subject Terms
Communities of Interest:
No COI(s) Identified
Descriptor(s):
(*MEDICAL RESEARCH, *STATISTICAL ANALYSIS), POISONING, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, THERAPY, IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES, SAMPLING, LABORATORY ANIMALS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Medical Research, Toxicology, Statistics and Probability
Report Date:
1967 Feb 21