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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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Volunteers who had developed a cold within the previous 24 hours were randomized to take either zinc or placebo lozenges every 2 to 3 hours until their cold symptoms were gone. Twenty-five participants took zinc lozenges, and 23 participants took placebo lozenges. The mean overall duration of symptoms for the zinc lozenge group was 3.5 days, and the standard deviation of overall duration of symptoms was 1.4 days. For the placebo group, the mean overall duration of symptoms was 7.8 days, and the standard deviation was 1.8 days.

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Volunteers who had developed a cold within the previous 24 hours were randomized to take either zinc or placebo lozenges every 2 to 3 hours until their cold symptoms were gone. Twenty-five participants took zinc lozenges, and 23 participants took placebo lozenges. The mean overall duration of symptoms for the zinc lozenge group was 4.5 days, and the standard deviation of overall duration of symptoms was 1.6 days. For the placebo group, the mean overall duration of symptoms was 8 days, and the standard deviation was 1.8 days.

(a) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the mean overall duration of symptoms in a population of individuals like those who used the zinc lozenges. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
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(b) Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the mean overall duration of symptoms in a population of individuals like those who used the placebo lozenges. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
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(c) On the basis of the intervals computed in parts (a) and (b), is it reasonable to conclude generally that taking zinc lozenges reduces the overall duration of cold symptoms? Fill the blanks in the following sentence.

reasonable to conclude that taking zinc lozenges reduces the duration of symptoms. The confidence intervals computed in parts (a) and (b) , so a reasonable conclusion is that in a population of cold sufferers the mean duration of symptoms if zinc lozenges are taken is than the mean duration if placebo is taken.

(d) In their paper, the researchers say that they checked whether it was reasonable to assume that the data were sampled from a normal curve population and decided that it was. How is this relevant to the calculations done in parts (a) and (b)? Fill the blank in the following sentence.

For relatively samples such as these, a necessary condition (in theory) is that the population of measurements has a normal distribution.

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