Good evening,

So this isn't about SBI per se, but is with regard to the blog posts about finding real data (which are great, by the way). I happened upon this article in Lancet that I like for a couple of reasons. It's from 1998, but I think it's still worth considering:

Wolkenstein et al. (1998). Randomised comparison of thalidomide versus placebo in toxic epidermal necrolysis. The Lancet 352, 1586-1589.

It's a small sample size (appropriate for Fisher's Exact Test), and the study had to be stopped because more people were dying from the active treatment than placebo (10/12 vs. 3/10). Thus, it's a nice opportunity to talk about ethics when studying human subjects and provides a real (and I think interesting as well) example of Fisher's Test.

Megan

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