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1. Give some serious thought to this question. How can you tell the difference between an anomalous data point that is a statistical outlier that should be discarded and an anomalous data point that is telling you about a significant new result that reflects science that does not fit the model you assumed for the data?

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2. In discussing equivalence testing, the text book returns to blood pressure and asserts that precious few clinicians would change their practice for just 3 mm Hg of difference in the systolic blood pressures of 163 versus 160 of two groups of 400 patients with a standard deviation of 15 mm Hg even though the 3mm Hg difference is statistically significant. Explain why that difference is statistically significant, and explain how you would determine how large a statistically signficiant difference would be clinically significant for blood pressure. Note that you need to specifically consider how you would make a determination of clinical significance.

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