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A physician with clinical experience in treating trigeminal neuralgia collaborates with a medical researcher to develop a more effective intervention. The physician conducted a clinical trial in his hospital to determine whether a new medication regimen would be better than a conventional treatment. The physician hired a staff member, who knew how to use statistical packages, to run some statistical analysis of the data to address the issue.
The p-value associated with the treatment effect was 0.063 indicating no statistically significant difference between the new medication regimen and the placebo at the nominal significance level a =0.05.
In order to show the difference between the experimental drug and the placebo, the physician decided to use (alpha) a =0.1 and then reported that the new medication regimen was better than placebo. The staff member who analyzed the data had warned the physician not to change the value of a after the analysis of the data.
Which perspective has a preponderance of support?
Staff member's perspective.
Physician's perspective.
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