A drug researcher decides to test a new arthritis pain medication for safety and effectiveness on a treatment group of 17 severely disabled arthritis
sufferers in a hospital ward. For the safety portion of the study, the same drug
will be administered to 17 healthy volunteers from the hospital staff. The
experiment will be repeated with the same experimental design at a number
of other hospitals and outpatient clinics across the country.
Which of the following principles of experimental design are being followed?
Check all that apply.
A. Randomization
B. Control C. Replication
D. Blindness
E. Blocking