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1. Consider an experiment to compare the effect of using two different types of

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1. Consider an experiment to compare the effect of using two different types of blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells) and two different target proteins (albumins and enzymes) to repair clotting problems in laboratory mice. a. What are the experimental units? b. What is the response? c. Give one factor in the experiment. d. Give a second factor e. What are the treatments? f. What may be some of the potential extraneous (noise) factors? How can direct control be used so that these extraneous factors don't obscure the effects of the treatments on the response? g.

Explanation / Answer

a)

the laboratory mice are the experimental units

b)

clotting is the response

c)

type of blood cell one factor

d)

(type of protien)

e)

red or white blood cell is treatment similarly albumin or enzyme is second treatment

f)

height wieight, age etc can se some extrannous factors for the mice

g)

using same aged, weight mice