Numerous studies have shown that a high fat diet can have a negative effect on a child's health. A new study' suggests that a high fat diet early in life might also have a significant effect on memory and spatial ability. In the double-blind study, young rats were randomly assigned to either a high-fat diet group or to a control group. After 12 weeks on the diets, the rats were given tests of their spatial memory. The article states that "spatial memory was significantly impaired" for the high-fat diet rats, and also tells us that "there were no significant differences in amount of time exploring objects" between the two groups. The p-values for the two tests are 0.0001 and 0.7. Underwood EL and Thompson LT, "A high-fat diet causes impairment in hippocampal memory and sex-dependent alterations in peripheral metabolism," Neural Plasticity, August 2015. (a) Which p-value goes with the test of spatial memory? 0.0001 0.7

Numerous studies have shown that a high fat diet can have a negative effect on a child's health. A new study' suggests that a high fat diet early in life might also have a significant effect on memory and spatial ability. In the double-blind study, young rats were randomly assigned to either a high-fat diet group or to a control group. After 12 weeks on the diets, the rats were given tests of their spatial memory. The article states that "spatial memory was significantly impaired" for the high-fat diet rats, and also tells us that "there were no significant differences in amount of time exploring objects" between the two groups. The p-values for the two tests are 0.0001 and 0.7. Underwood EL and Thompson LT, "A high-fat diet causes impairment in hippocampal memory and sex-dependent alterations in peripheral metabolism," Neural Plasticity, August 2015. (a) Which p-value goes with the test of spatial memory? 0.0001 0.7

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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