Introductory Statistics (2nd Edition)
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Author: Robert Gould, Colleen N. Ryan
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 38SE
A researcher was interested in the effect of exercise on memory .She randomly assigned half of a group of students to run up a stairway three times and the other half to rest for an equivalent amount of time. Each student was then asked to memorize a series of random digits. She compared the numbers of digits remembered for the two groups.
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