The doctor would like to know if these data provide convincing evidence that the distribution of responses differs across the treatment groups in the population of all patients like these. What is the appropriate inference procedure?

Use a chi-square test for homogeneity when comparing the distribution of a categorical response across independent groups. Here, the doctor wants to know whether response distributions differ among the treatment groups, so the appropriate procedure is the chi-square test for homogeneity.

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