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A clinical trial is conducted comparing a new pain reliever for arthritis to a placebo. Participants are randomly assigned to receive the new treatment or a placebo and the outcome is pain relief within 30 minutes. Is there a significant difference in the proportions of patients reporting pain relief? Run the test at a 5% level of significance.

The data is shown below (Attention I need this done on excel and I also need the formula calculated on excel (simple understandable calculations step by step please).

Pain Relief No Pain Relief
new medication 44 76

Placebo 21 99

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Step by step method for computing Z test statistic for comparing two population proportion.

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Performing Hypothesis Tests Two Samples (biostatistics)
A clinical trial is conducted comparing a new pain reliever for arthritis to a placebo. Participants are randomly assigned to receive the new treatment or a placebo and the outcome is pain relief within 30 minutes. Is there a significant difference in the proportions of patients reporting pain relief? Run the test at a 5% level of significance.

The data is shown below (Attention I need this done on excel and I also need the formula ...

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