In: Statistics and Probability
Use the given statistics to complete parts (a) and (b). Assume that the populations are normally distributed. (a) Test whether mu 1 greater than mu 2 at the a=0.05 level of significance for the given sample data. (b) Construct a 95% confidence interval about mu 1 - mu 2.
(a) Identify the null and alternative hypotheses for this test.
population 1 | population 2 | |
n | 23 | 16 |
x | 50.5 | 41.6 |
s 6.7 11.7