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2. Rossi et al. (2013) studied the relationship between cholesterol level and hypertension. They compared the...

2. Rossi et al. (2013) studied the relationship between cholesterol level and hypertension. They compared
the total cholesterol measurements (mg/dl) for 15 patients with primary hypertension (PH) and another
15 patients who were normotensive (NT). The results are given below.
Patient Number Primary hypertensive patients Normotensive patients
1 207 177
2 172 179
3 241 194
4 185 206
5 134 173
6 222 189
7 180 194
8 276 168
9 218 212
10 265 142
11 183 188
12 214 200
13 259 179
14 152 142
15 210 222
Can we conclude that PH patients have, on average, higher total cholesterol levels than NT patients?
Make no assumptions and show all work out to the right.
Ho:
Ha:
test-statistic:
df:
Exact P value for the test-statistic

Conclusion relative to the hypothesis:

What is the
Statistical Power of this test?: %

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Expert Solution

Patient Number Primary hypertensive patients(X1) Normotensive patients(X2)
1 207 177
2 172 179
3 241 194
4 185 206
5 134 173
6 222 189
7 180 194
8 276 168
9 218 212
10 265 142
11 183 188
12 214 200
13 259 179
14 152 142
15 210 222
Mean 207.8666667 184.3333333
SD 41.18402372 22.69570968

Let alpha = 0.05


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