In: Statistics and Probability
A researcher is conducting a pilot study on physical activity in healthy older adults, and is measuring the number of minutes of elevated heart rate that the participants attain over the course of seven days. The researcher is particularly interested in the role that gender plays in exercise, and has sorted her data by gender.
Number of minutes for females: 98, 49, 55, 303, 60, 75, 59, 121, 95, 99, 27, 50, 62, 70, 86, 126, 138, 111, 86, 69
Number of minutes for males: 78, 98, 155, 51, 71, 129, 125, 20, 110, 98, 140, 131, 88, 90, 105, 110, 86, 90, 145, 155
Assume that the data in problem number 1 above were obtained using random sampling. Test the hypothesis (writing out the 5 steps) that males had more minutes of exercise than did females.