Two treatments for a new infectious disease have been developed to reduce hospitalizations. Each treatment was given to different groups of patients. Treatment 1 was given to n1 = 56 people. Subjects of treatment 1 had a mean hospital stay of x1 = 5.4 days with a standard deviation of s1 = 2.7 days. Treatment 2 was given to n2 = 45 people. Subjects of treatment 2 had a mean hospital stay of x2 = 8.8 days with a standard deviation of s2 = 3.1 days. Use the method of hypothesis testing to test the claim that the mean time in the hospital for treatment 1 is shorter than the mean time in the hospital for treatment 2 assuming a 0.01 significance level (a) List the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis Ha for this test. (b) Compute the value of the test statistic
Two treatments for a new infectious disease have been developed to reduce hospitalizations. Each treatment was given to different groups of patients. Treatment 1 was given to n1 = 56 people. Subjects of treatment 1 had a
Subjects of treatment 2 had a mean hospital stay of x2 = 8.8 days with a standard deviation of s2 = 3.1 days. Use the method of hypothesis testing to test the claim that the mean time in the hospital for treatment 1 is shorter than the mean time in the hospital for treatment 2 assuming a 0.01 significance level
(a) List the null hypothesis H0 and the alternative hypothesis Ha for this test.
(b) Compute the value of the test statistic
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