In: Statistics and Probability
A medical researcher compares the pulse rates of smokers and nonsmokers. A sample of 71 smokers had a mean pulse rate of 81. A sample of 86 nonsmokers had a mean pulse rate of 77. Assume the standard deviation of the pulse rates is known to be 7 for smokers and 7 for non- smokers. Using these results, conduct a hypothesis test of the conjecture that the true mean pulse rate for smokers is different from the true mean pulse rate for nonsmokers at 0.05 level of significance
This is the problem related to topic " testing of equality of mean of two population". Therefore we are going to make use of t-test for comparing mean because two population have unknown variance.(note: standard deviation of two sample is known)