Doctors used a t test to compare cancer patients' recovery rates during time spent in the hospitals versus time spent in their own home to decide the best place for patients to be during recovery.Their study measured all patients' white blood cell counts while they were in the hospital and then again while all patients were at home.What type of design is this?

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This is a within-groups design because the study is comparing the recovery rates of the same group of patients in two different environments (hospital and home) and measuring changes within each individual patient over time (white blood cell counts). This is not a single-subject design because it involves multiple patients, and it is not a between-groups design because it is not comparing different groups of patients (e.g. cancer patients vs. non-cancer patients). It is also not an independent samples design because each patient is being measured twice, once in the hospital and once at home.

Doctors Used a T Test to Compare Cancer Patients' Recovery