A trainer at the Popular Gym, was interested in comparing levels of physical fitness of the...
. Comparing and contrasting single-sample and two-condition designs Which of the following experiments describes a two-condition experiment? O You want to test whether a sample of chimpanzees raised in captivity and fed a strict vegan diet for their lifetimes live longer than the known average life span for all chimpanzees living in captivity You want to compare the mean Hamilton depression scores of a random sample of teenage girls who attend a weeklong self-image camp to the known mean Hamilton...
Do ESL students score lower in English college placement tests than the national average? A researcher obtained the English placement test scores of a random sample of 53 ESL students. He finds that the mean score of these 53 students is 147.9. Is this significantly different from the national average (u = 150, 0 = 15)? Using a = .05, match the correct answers to each value N 53 Zobserved < - 1.02 Zcv -1.65 Standard error of the mean...
A study was designed to compare the attitudes of two groups of nursing students towards computers. Group 1 had previously taken a statistical methods course that involved significant computer interaction. Group 2 had taken a statistic methods course that did not use computers. The students' attitudes were measured by administering the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale (CARS). A random sample of 15 nursing students from Group 1 resulted in a mean score of 41.5 with a standard deviation of 4.2. A...
7. A group of university students are interested in comparing the average age of cars owned by students and the average age of cars owned by faculty. They randomly selected 25 cars that are own by students and 20 cars that are owned by faculty. The average age and standard deviation obtained from the students' cars are 6.78 years and 5.21 years, respectively. The sample of faculty cars produced a mean and a standard deviation of 5.86 years, and 2.72....
A fitness center is interested in finding a 98% confidence interval for the mean number of days per week that Americans who are members of a fitness club go to their fitness center. Records of 263 members were looked at and their mean number of visits per week was 2.1 and the standard deviation was 2.9. Round answers to 3 decimal places where possible. a. To compute the confidence interval use a distribution. b. With 98% confidence the population mean...
A study was designed to compare the attitudes of two groups of nursing students towards computers. Group 1 had previously taken a statistical methods course that involved significant computer interaction. Group 2 had taken a statistic methods course that did not use computers. The students' attitudes were measured by administering the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale (CARS). A random sample of 15 nursing students from Group 1 resulted in a mean score of 66.5 with a standard deviation of 2.6. A...
A fitness center is interested in finding a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of days per week that Americans who are members of a fitness club go to their fitness center. Records of 240 members were looked at and their mean number of visits per week was 2.3 and the standard deviation was 1.7. Round answers to 3 decimal places where possible. a. To compute the confidence interval use a ? v distribution. b. With 95% confidence the...
A fitness center is interested in finding a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of days per week that Americans who are members of a fitness club go to their fitness center. Records of 265 members were looked at and their mean number of visits per week was 2.5 and the standard deviation was 1.6. Round answers to 3 decimal places where possible. a. To compute the confidence interval use a ? t or z distribution. b. With 95% confidence...
1. The average score on IQ tests is 100, with a standard deviation of 15. One of your clients scored 134. What percent of the population is likely to score higher? Group of answer choices 98.81% 27.36% 1.16% 48.81% 2. You work in the admission department of a small liberal-arts college in the Midwest. Scores from a standardized test are used as the primary method of determination of eligibility. The mean of that standardized test is 609, and the standard...
A P.E instructor has recently conducted a Physical Fitness test on three different groups of high school boys which are enrolled in three different classes during three different periods of class during the day. Group 1 is enrolled in the first period P.E. class, Group 2 is enrolled in the third period class, and Group 3 is enrolled in the sixth period class. The P.E. instructor would like to determine if there are significant differences between the three groups of...