Submit a document with the answer to the following question along with an Excel workbook with the appropriate computations. Be sure to report the appropriate statistics.   A clinical psychologist thinks that depression affects sleeping patterns. To test this idea, they randomly select 9 people with depression, and 8 people without depression (1 drops out of the study) and monitors sleeping. The number of hours that each patient slept is presented below.   Depressed:                  7.1       6.8       6.7       7.3       7.5       6.2       6.9       6.5       7.2       Not-depressed:            8.2       7.5       7.7       7.8       8.0       7.4       7.3       6.5         Using alpha = .05, is there something to the psychologist’s intuition?  Do people with depression sleep less than normal people?  Conduct a hypothesis test, writing out all 6 steps, that people with depression sleep less than non-depressed people. What do you conclude?

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Submit a document with the answer to the following question along with an Excel workbook with the appropriate computations. Be sure to report the appropriate statistics.

 

  1. A clinical psychologist thinks that depression affects sleeping patterns. To test this idea, they randomly select 9 people with depression, and 8 people without depression (1 drops out of the study) and monitors sleeping. The number of hours that each patient slept is presented below.

 

Depressed:                  7.1       6.8       6.7       7.3       7.5       6.2       6.9       6.5       7.2      

Not-depressed:            8.2       7.5       7.7       7.8       8.0       7.4       7.3       6.5      

 

Using alpha = .05, is there something to the psychologist’s intuition?  Do people with depression sleep less than normal people?  Conduct a hypothesis test, writing out all 6 steps, that people with depression sleep less than non-depressed people. What do you conclude?

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