A clinical trial investigating a new cholesterollowering med

A clinical trial investigating a new cholesterol-lowering medication aims to identify whether it is any more effective than the current market favorite drug. This type of study uses what kind of statistics:

Solution

you can use the same statistics that use for compare healthy people with disease people and compare the result for both groups

just that in this case you compare the people that will use the new medication with the people that will use the favorite drug

observational studies

Case-control: Individuals with disease and a healthy group are compared with respect to things that they have done differently in the past that may have lead to disease