Applying statistics: a) Treating breast cancer. The most common treatment for breast cancer was once removal of the breast. It is now ... b) Do heavier people burn more energy? Metabolic rate, the rate at which the body consumes energy, is important in ... c) Body mass and metabolic rate. Exercise (b) gives data on the lean body mass and metabolic rate for 12 women ... d) Food poisoning. Below are data on 18 people who fell ill from an incident of food poisoning. The data give ...
A) Treating breast cancer. The most common treatment for breast cancer was once removal of the breast. It is now usual to remove only the tumor and nearby lymph nodes, followed by radiation. The change in policy was due to a large medical experiment that compared the two treatments. Each treatment was given to a separate group o