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31. A medicinal study compares a new drug to a standard treatment. The confidence interval for the difference in mean effectiveness includes zero. What is the critical interpretation of this result?

A. The new drug is definitely better.
B. There is no statistically significant difference between the two treatments.
C. The standard treatment is better.
D. The study is invalid.
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29. The Central Limit Theorem is technically important in biostatistics because it states that, for large sample sizes, the sampling distribution of the sample mean will approximate a:

A. Binomial distribution.
B. Poisson distribution.
C. Normal distribution, regardless of the population distribution.
D. Uniform distribution.
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27. A medicinal study is designed to compare the effect of a new drug versus placebo on a continuous outcome. If a large standard deviation is observed in the preliminary data, what critical implication does this have for the required sample size?

A. A smaller sample size will be needed.
B. A larger sample size will be needed to detect a statistically significant difference.
C. The standard deviation is irrelevant to sample size.
D. The study should be abandoned.
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25. A researcher performs a hypothesis test and obtains a p-value of 0.08. If the significance level is 0.05, what is the technical conclusion?

A. Reject the null hypothesis.
B. Fail to reject the null hypothesis.
C. Accept the alternative hypothesis.
D. The result is statistically significant.
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