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Chapter 4: Q 52. (page 253)

Internet telephone calls You can use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to make long-distance

telephone calls over the Internet. How will the cost affect the use of this service? A university plans an experiment to find out. It will offer the service to all 350 students in one of its dormitories. Some students will pay a low flat rate. Others will pay higher rates at peak periods and very low rates off-peak. The university is interested in the amount and time of use and inthe effect on the congestion of the network.

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Subjects: The students in the dormitory picked.

Explanatory variable: composition of prices.

Treatments: one flat rate payable or one on / off peak rate payable.

Variables of response: quantity, time and overall network utilization.

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The experimental units, explanatory and response variables, and treatments must all be identified.

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Concept

The treatments are randomly assigned to all of the experimental units in a completely randomized design.

In a double-blind experiment, neither the subjects nor the persons who interact with them and evaluate their responses are aware of the therapy they received.

Observational research looks at people and assesses factors of interest without trying to affect their responses.

Individuals are purposely subjected to a treatment in order to measure their responses in an experiment.

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Explanation

A specific disorder is referred to as a treatment for participants in a study.

The students in the dorm choose the subjects.

Price composition is an explanatory variable.

Treatments include a single flat cost or an on/off-peak rate.

Quantity, time, and total network use are the response variables.

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