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A cohort study was conducted that examined the outcome of weight loss comparing two diets:

a traditional American diet and an all?-beet diet. Baseline characteristics are provided in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Baseline characteristics of study participants

Traditional DietAll?-Beet Dietp?-value
Age [Mean (SD)]49.4 (3.9)52.2 (3.4)0.003
BMI [Mean (SD)]32.7 (2.2)32.5 (2.1)0.687
Male sex (%)53.4%51.3%0.332

What test was used to obtain the p?-value associated with the difference between gender distribution in the two groups?
A  a chi square test
B  t?-test
C  confidence interval
D  standard error test
E  beta test
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Attribution:  Janet, E.A. Forrester, Kwan Ho Kenneth Chui, Steven Cohen, Michael D. Kneeland, Alice Tang, David Tybor. Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2010. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/65/ (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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