26. A drug company conducts a study with a new drug that they think will be effective in treating epilepsy. The study used 45 epilepsy patients that were first matched on the severity of their seizures (from 0 to 100) and then randomly assigned to one of three groups: placebo; low dose; and high dose. Finally, the number of epilepsy seizures was recorded for two months.

(a) Would you use a descriptive or inferential procedure? Why?

(b) How many samples are there? Are the samples independent or dependent? Why?

(c) Is the dependent variable qualitative or quantitative?

(d) What statistical procedure should be used? Why?