Homework Help Forum: statistics

Posted by simi on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 1:04pm.

can anyone help me with this problem? a sample of n=9 indivividuals was selected from a normally distributed pop. with a mean of M=25 and a standard deviation of 6.a treatment was administered to the sample, and treatment , the nine individuals produced the following score: 36,27,30,33,22,30,30,24,38 -use a hypothesis test with alpha=.05 to determine whether the treatment had a significant effect. the value for Z in this instant is? this is what i did: -i calculated the mean for the sample, which was 30. -then i used the formula 30-25/2=2.5 -the critical value(two-tailed, alpha .05) for Z in this instance is +/- 1.96 is this correct?

• statistics - MathGuru, Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:05pm

  Looks OK!

  
  

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