In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose a hypertension trial is mounted and 18 participants are randomly assigned to one of the comparison treatments. Each participant takes the assigned medication and his or her systolic blood pressure is recorded after 6 months on the assigned treatment. The data are as follows.
Standard Treatment |
Placebo |
New Treatment |
124 |
134 |
114 |
111 |
143 |
117 |
133 |
148 |
121 |
125 |
142 |
124 |
128 |
150 |
122 |
115 |
160 |
128 |
Is there a difference in mean systolic blood pressure among treatments? Run the appropriate test at α = 0.05.