A pharmaceutical company wants to compare the effect of two different drugs, A and B, on blood pressure. The company conducted an experiment where each subject took each drug for a different one-month period with a break in between. The change in blood pressure from the start to the end of the month was measured for each period. It was assumed that there was no carry-over effect. Which of the following inferential procedures is most appropriate for analyzing the data?
1
A matched pairs t-test.
2
A 2-sample z-test.
3
A chi-square test of independence.
4
An analysis of variance (ANOVA)