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Learning Goal

Part of: Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies3 of 4 cluster items

Compare two treatments from a randomized experiment

HSS.IC.B.5

**HSS.IC.B.5**: Use data from a randomized experiment to compare two treatments; use simulations to decide if differences between parameters are significant.

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HSS.IC.B.5: Use data from a randomized experiment to compare two treatments; use simulations to decide if differences between parameters are significant.

What you'll learn

  1. Compute a difference in summary statistics (means or proportions) between two treatment groups in a randomized experiment
  2. State the no-effect assumption -- that any observed difference is due only to the random assignment -- as the model to be tested
  3. Build a re-randomization distribution by repeatedly shuffling group labels and recomputing the difference under the no-effect assumption
  4. Locate the observed difference in the re-randomization distribution and decide whether it is significant (unlikely to arise by chance alone)
  5. Interpret a significant or non-significant result causally, given random assignment, and state the limits of the conclusion