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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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• At this stage the ages have been ignored. Age could be increasingthe residual variation hiding the true treatment difference, agemay be a confounder.• USE REGRESSION.Regression• Lets first perform a simple linear regression on BP <strong>and</strong> the dummyvariable for being in the treatment or control groups.{0 if controld =1 if treatmentSimple Linear RegressionLine <strong>of</strong> least squares• The estimated regression equation is :ŷ = 121 + 6.25d247

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