8.35 Experimental design. The clinical trial was a com pletely randomized experiment that assigned 240 patients at random among 4 treatments as follows:

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(a) Outline the design of the experiment.

(b) How will you label the 240 subjects?

(c) Explain briefly how you would do the random assignment of patients to treatments. Assign the first 5 patients who will receive the first treatment.