Matched or Paired Samples · Exercise 12
A new heart disease prevention drug was tried on a group of 224 patients. Forty-five patients developed heart disease after four years. In a control group of 224 patients, 68 developed heart disease after four years. We want to test whether the method of treatment reduces the proportion of patients that develop heart disease after four years or if the proportions of the treated group and the untreated group stay the same.
Let the subscript t = treated patient and ut = untreated patient.
The appropriate hypotheses are:
(a) H_0: p_t < p_ut and H_a: p_t ≥ p_ut
(b) H_0: p_t ≤ p_ut and H_a: p_t > p_ut
(c) H_0: p_t = p_ut and H_a: p_t ≠ p_ut
(d) H_0: p_t = p_ut and H_a: p_t < p_ut
This problem repeats another one in the library (at most with different numbers), so it's left out of browsing.
OpenStax, Introductory Business Statistics 2e · §10.6 Matched or Paired Samples · Exercise 12
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