In: Statistics and Probability
The blood pressure measurements of a single patient were taken by twelve different medical students and the results are listed below. Construct a scatterplot, find the value of the linear correlation coefficient r, and find the P-value using
alphaαequals=0.050.05.
Is there sufficient evidence to conclude that there is a linear correlation between systolic measurements and diastolic measurements?
| 
 systolic (x)  | 
 137137  | 
 133133  | 
 139139  | 
 120120  | 
 126126  | 
 121121  | 
 128128  | 
 128128  | 
 129129  | 
 143143  | 
 143143  | 
 138138  | 
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 
 diastolic (y)  | 
 9595  | 
 9393  | 
 101101  | 
 8585  | 
 8989  | 
 8080  | 
 8181  | 
 8484  | 
 8080  | 
 9595  | 
 105105  | 
 9797  | 
What are the null and alternative hypotheses?

below is scatter plot:

| null hypothesis: Ho: ρ | = | 0 | |
| Alternate Hypothesis: Ha: ρ | ≠ | 0 | |
| correlation coefficient r= | Sxy/(√Sxx*Syy) = | 0.851 | |
| test stat t= | r*(√(n-2)/(1-r2))= | 5.127 | 
| P value = | 0.0004 | 
reject Ho and conclude that there is a linear correlation between systolic measurements and diastolic measurements