Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10.4, Problem 49PB
Does exercise help blood pressure? Several recent studies have suggested that people who suffer from abnormally high blood pressure can benefit from regular exercise. A medical researcher decides to test her belief that walking briskly for at least half an hour a day has the effect of lowering blood pressure. She conducts a small pilot study. If results from it are supportive, she will apply for funding for a larger study. She randomly samples three of her patients who have high blood pressure. She measures their systolic blood pressure initially and then again a month later after they participate in her exercise program. The table shows the results.
- a. Explain why the three before observations and the three after observations are dependent samples.
- b. Find the sample
mean of the before scores, the sample mean of the after scores, and the sample mean of the difference scores d = before β after. How are they related? - c. Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the population means of subjects before and after going through such a study. Interpret.
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