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62. A medicinal study reports a 95% confidence interval for the mean increase in a biomarker as (?0.5,2.0). What is the critical interpretation?

A. The drug definitely increases the biomarker.
B. The drug definitely decreases the biomarker.
C. The confidence interval includes zero, suggesting no statistically significant effect of the drug on the biomarker.
D. The drug is highly effective.
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59. What technical concept allows us to use sample statistics to make inferences about population parameters?

A. Descriptive statistics.
B. Probability.
C. Inferential statistics.
D. Data visualization.
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57. A medicinal study finds a statistically significant result (p < 0.05), but the sample size was very small. What critical implication does this have for the reliability of the finding?

A. Small sample size makes the finding more reliable.
B. Small sample size can lead to unstable estimates and findings that may not replicate in larger studies.
C. The p-value is always accurate regardless of sample size.
D. The study had high power.
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53. A medicinal study aims to determine if a new drug is non-inferior to an existing drug. What critical difference in hypothesis testing approach is required compared to a superiority trial?

A. The null hypothesis assumes the new drug is inferior by a pre-specified margin.
B. The null hypothesis assumes the new drug is superior.
C. The significance level is ignored.
D. Non-inferiority trials do not use hypothesis testing.
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