Question

You would like to know how effective a diet program is at helping people lose weight. 18 over-weight people are randomly selected to participate in the program. They are weighed before and after the program and the results are listed below. Do these results give evidence that the diet program is effective at the 1% significance level?

Answer 1

Answer:

There is not enough evidence to support the claim that drug is effective at 1%

Step-by-step explanation:

For this we use the pored test as we have dependent test;

Difference :

10,5,-5,3,-3,4,2,-3,0,10,8,-2,3,-2,5,5,4,0

Hypothesis :

H0 : μd = 0

H0 : μd ≠ 0

The mean of d, dbar = Σd / n = 44 / 18 = 2.44

The standard deviation, Sd = 4.45 (using calculator)

The test statistic, T : dbar / (Sd/√n)

T = 2.44 / (4.45/√18)

T = 2.44 / 1.0488750

T = 2.326

Degree of freedom, df = n - 1 ; 18 - 1 = 17

The Pvalue = 0.0326

α = 0.01

Since Pvalue < α ; we fail to reject H0