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Explanatory variable and response variable. Identify the explanatory variable and response...

Explanatory variable and response variable. Identify the explanatory variable and response variable in each of the studies described here.

(a) A study of cell phone use and primary brain cancer suggested that cell phone use was not associated with an elevated risk of brain cancer.k

(b) Records of more than three-quarters of a million surgical procedures conducted at 34 different hospitals were monitored for anesthetics safety. The study found a mortality rate of 3.4% for one particular anesthetic. No other major anesthetics was associated with mortality greater than 1.9%.l

(c) In a landmark study involving more than three-quarters of a million individuals in the United States, Canada, and Finland, subjects were randomly given either the Salk polio vaccine or a saline (placebo) injection. The vaccinated group experienced a polio rate of 28 per 100,000 while the placebo group had a rate of 69 per 100,000. A third group that refused to participate had a polio rate of 46 per 100,000.m

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