A graduate student is performing a study on a new antidepressant. The drug is supposed to reduce depression, but the graduate student realizes that it may do nothing or even increase depression, so she decides to formulate nondirectional hypotheses and conduct a two-tailed test. She knows that the average score for all depressed people is μ₀ = 50, with a standard deviation of σ = 7. If she designates the mean for the population of depressed people who take the antidepressant as μantidepressantantidepressant, she can identify the null and alternative hypotheses as:     H₀: μantidepressantantidepressant = μ₀   H₁: μantidepressantantidepressant ≠ μ₀   The sample of 110 depressed people who tried out the new antidepressant scored an average of 48.4.   Since the graduate student knows the standard deviation of the scores on the depression inventory for the population of people who are depressed, she intends to use a hypothesis test that uses the z-score of the sample mean as the test statistic (also known as the z test). First, she wants to make sure all the required assumptions are satisfied. Which of the following conditions is not a required assumption for the z test?   1.  The scores on the depression inventory follow a normal distribution or the sample size is large (at least 30).   2.  The mean of the scores on the depression inventory is the same for those who take the antidepressant and those who don’t.   3.  The standard deviation of the scores on the depression inventory is the same for those who take the antidepressant and those who don’t.   4.  Members of the sample are selected randomly.   5.  Each observation is independent of every other observation.     The critical z-scores (the values for z-scores that separate the tails from the main body of the distribution, forming the critical regions) are ____________.   Calculate the z statistic, and use the Distributions tool to evaluate the null hypothesis. The z statistic is ____________ . The z statistic  _________ lie in the critical region for a two-tailed hypothesis test. Therefore, the null hypothesis is  __________.

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15. A graduate student is performing a study on a new antidepressant. The drug is supposed to reduce depression, but the graduate student realizes that it may do nothing or even increase depression, so she decides to formulate nondirectional hypotheses and conduct a two-tailed test. She knows that the average score for all depressed people is μ₀ = 50, with a standard deviation of σ = 7. If she designates the mean for the population of depressed people who take the antidepressant as μantidepressantantidepressant, she can identify the null and alternative hypotheses as:
 
  H₀: μantidepressantantidepressant = μ₀
  H₁: μantidepressantantidepressant ≠ μ₀
 
The sample of 110 depressed people who tried out the new antidepressant scored an average of 48.4.
 
Since the graduate student knows the standard deviation of the scores on the depression inventory for the population of people who are depressed, she intends to use a hypothesis test that uses the z-score of the sample mean as the test statistic (also known as the z test). First, she wants to make sure all the required assumptions are satisfied. Which of the following conditions is not a required assumption for the z test?
 
1.  The scores on the depression inventory follow a normal distribution or the sample size is large (at least 30).
 
2.  The mean of the scores on the depression inventory is the same for those who take the antidepressant and those who don’t.
 
3.  The standard deviation of the scores on the depression inventory is the same for those who take the antidepressant and those who don’t.
 
4.  Members of the sample are selected randomly.
 
5.  Each observation is independent of every other observation.
 
 
The critical z-scores (the values for z-scores that separate the tails from the main body of the distribution, forming the critical regions) are ____________.
 
Calculate the z statistic, and use the Distributions tool to evaluate the null hypothesis. The z statistic is ____________ . The z statistic  _________ lie in the critical region for a two-tailed hypothesis test. Therefore, the null hypothesis is  __________.
 
 
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