Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The 150 epileptics constitute _________.
A) the dependent variable
B) a parameter
C) a statistic
D) the independent variable

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The 150 epileptics being treated at the nearby hospital are a parameter, which is a characteristic of a population. The dependent variable would be the incidence of epileptic seizures and the independent variable would be the new drug being administered. The 20 selected epileptics are a sample, which is a subset of the population being studied.

Let's Assume You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine the Effect