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Dependent or Outcome Variable

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Clinical trial

Dependent variable= Outcome (ill or healthy)

Independent variable= Treatment arm (new drug)

 


Discrete Data

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  • Information that can only take certain values
  • Opposite of continuous data
  • Example: Number of people in a room: It is impossible to have 40.3 people in a room.