Quiz 6 November 4, 2005 Name ___________________________Stat 217 Cocaine addiction is hard to break. Addicts need cocaine to feel any pleasure, so therapists give them an antidepressant drug to help. A 3 year study with 72 chronic cocaine users compared two antidepressant drugs, a new drug called desipramine, and lithium, the standard drug used to treat cocaine addition. In addition, some addicts were given a placebo (or dummy) drug. 72 addicts were randomly assigned to each of these treatments. The results are given in the following 2-way table: Cocaine RelapseYes No TOTALSdesipramine10 14lithium 18 6placebo 20 4TOTALS1. What percentage of all addicts relapsed back to cocaine use after treatment?2. What percentage of all addicts took the placebo?3. Why is it important that placebo or dummy pills were used in the study?4. Which treatment appears to be most effective for cocaine addiction? Give the proportions you are using to answer this question.5. Give a possible lurking variable that might change the direction of your assertion in #5.Here is the original 2-way table of drug treatment and cocaine relapse from the other side of the quiz, as well as some handy dandy formulas: cellsallectedecte dobservedXexpexp22 , 11 cr , ntotalcolumntotalrow ))((6. Fill in the following table with the missing expected cell counts. SHOW YOUR WORK! Cocaine RelapseYes Nodesipramine 16lithium 16 8placebo 16 87. Let us test whether there is an association between drug and cocaine relapse. (a) What are the null and alternative hypotheses being tested?(b) Fill in the missing contributions to the test statistic. SHOW YOUR WORK! Cocaine RelapseYes Nodesipramine 2.25 4.5lithium .25 .5placebo 2(c) Calculate the value of the test statistic. SHOW YOUR WORK!(d) Give the distribution of the test statistic.(e) If the p-value is .005, then make a decision at the 0.05 significance level. (f) State your conclusion in terms of this problem.(g) If there is an association, then which drug treatment group(s) have higher or lower incidences of cocaine relapse than the others? Indicate which output you are using to justify your answer. Cocaine RelapseYes No TOTALSdesipramine 10 14lithium 18 6placebo 20
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