In: Statistics and Probability
A powder diet is tested on 49 people, and a liquid diet is tested on 36 different people. Of interest is whether the liquid diet yields a higher mean weight loss than the powder diet. The powder diet group had a mean weight loss of 42 pounds with a standard deviation of 12 pounds. The liquid diet group had a mean weight loss of 45 pounds with a standard deviation of 14 pounds. Conduct a hypothesis test at the 5% level.
What is the test statistic?
The test hypothesis is
Now, the value of test static can be found out by following
formula:
Degrees of freedom on the t-test statistic are n1 + n2 - 2 = 49 +
36 - 2 = 83
This implies that
Since, the t distribution is symmetric about zero, so -t_{0.05,
83}
Since,
we fail to reject the null hypothesis H0 at