Paper 2, Section I, 6H\mathbf{6 H}

Statistics | Part IB, 2021

The efficacy of a new drug was tested as follows. Fifty patients were given the drug, and another fifty patients were given a placebo. A week later, the numbers of patients whose symptoms had gone entirely, improved, stayed the same and got worse were recorded, as summarised in the following table.

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline & Drug & Placebo \ \hline symptoms gone & 14 & 6 \ improved & 21 & 19 \ same & 10 & 10 \ worse & 5 & 15 \ \hline \end{tabular}

Conduct a 5%5 \% significance level test of the null hypothesis that the medicine and placebo have the same effect, against the alternative that their effects differ.

[Hint: You may find some of the following values relevant:

\begin{tabular}{|c|cccccc|} \hline Distribution & χ12\chi_{1}^{2} & χ22\chi_{2}^{2} & χ32\chi_{3}^{2} & χ42\chi_{4}^{2} & χ62\chi_{6}^{2} & χ82\chi_{8}^{2} \ \hline 95 th percentile & 3.843.84 & 5.995.99 & 7.817.81 & 9.489.48 & 12.5912.59 & 15.5115.51 \ \hline \end{tabular}

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