Twenty adult males between the ages of 30 and 40 participated in a study to evaluate the effect of a specific health regimen involving diet and exercise on the blood cholesterol. Ten were randomly selected to be a control group, and ten others were assigned to take part in the regimen as the treatment group for a period of 6 months. The following data show the reduction in cholesterol experienced for the time period for the 20 subjects: Control group: 7, 3, −4, 14, 2, 5, 22
Twenty adult males between the ages of 30 and 40 participated in a study to evaluate the effect of a specific health regimen involving diet and exercise on the blood cholesterol. Ten were randomly selected to be a control group, and ten others were assigned to take part in the regimen as the treatment group for a period of 6 months. The following data show the reduction in cholesterol experienced for the time period for the 20 subjects:
Control group: 7, 3, −4, 14, 2, 5, 22, −7, 95
Treatment group: −6, 5, 9, 44, 12, 37, 5, 3, 3
(a) Do a dot plot of the data for both groups on the
same graph.
(b) Compute the
mean for both groups.
(c) Explain why the difference in means suggests one
conclusion about the effect of the regimen, while
the difference in medians or trimmed means suggests a different conclusion.
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