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A randomised controlled trial of a smoking-cessation drug reports a hazard ratio for quitting of 1.8 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.95 to 3.4. How should this result be interpreted at the conventional 5% significance level?

The drug significantly increases quitting because the point estimate is 1.8 The result is not statistically significant because the confidence interval includes 1 The drug significantly reduces quitting The wide interval proves the trial was fraudulent

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The result is not statistically significant because the confidence interval includes 1

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