The article “Well-Fed Crickets Bowl Maidens Over” (Nature Science Update, February 11, 1999) reported that female field crickets are attracted to males with high chirp rates and hypothesized that chirp rate is related to nutritional status. The usual chirp rate for male field crickets was reported to vary around a mean of 60 chirps per second. To investigate whether the chirp rate was related to nutritional status, investigators fed 22 male crickets a high protein diet for 8 days, after which chirp rate was measured. Let: The parameter μμ be the mean chirp rate of male crickets on a high protein diet for 8 days.
The article “Well-Fed Crickets Bowl Maidens Over” (Nature Science Update, February 11, 1999) reported that female field crickets are attracted to males with high chirp rates and hypothesized that chirp rate is related to nutritional status. The usual chirp rate for male field crickets was reported to vary around a mean of 60 chirps per second. To investigate whether the chirp rate was related to nutritional status, investigators fed 22 male crickets a high protein diet for 8 days, after which chirp rate was measured.
Let:
The parameter μμ be the mean chirp rate of male crickets on a high protein diet for 8 days. |
Given:
- The mean chirp rate for the random sample of crickets on the high protein diet was reported to be 65.32 chirps per second with a standard deviation of 12.
Research Question:
- Is there convincing evidence that the mean chirp rate for crickets on a high protein diet implies an advantage in attracting the ladies?
- It is known that the researchers did not want to risk a Type I error of more than 5%
1.1 what is the alternative hypothesis
1.2
What assumption is needed to run a parametric test for this research project?
- Assume that the population distribution of male field crickets follows the tt distribution.
- Assume that the population of male field crickets follows a
normal distribution . - Assume that the population of chirp rate follows a normal distribution.
- Assume that the population distribution of the chirp rate follows the tt distribution.
1.3 Calculate the value of the test statistic.
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