Fear of heights - A psychologist has developed a new treatment for acrophobia (the extreme fear of heights) and wants to compare the results of this new treatment to the results of the standard...


Fear of heights - A psychologist has developed a new treatment for acrophobia (the extreme fear of heights) and wants to compare the results of this<br>new treatment to the results of the standard treatment. A study is conducted where a random sample of 16 patients undergo the new treatment and<br>their improvement scores on a diagnostic test are compared to a control sample of 13 patients who received the standard treatment. Summary scores<br>for both groups are shown in the table below.<br>Treatment Sample Mean Sample Standard Deviation<br>New<br>50.9<br>12<br>Standard<br>47.2<br>11.4<br>The degrees of freedom for this problem is d f<br>26.287709.<br>1. Select the hypotheses that should be used to assess if the new treatment results in higher average improvement scores than the standard treatment.<br>А. Но : И1<br>= µ2 vs. Ha : H1 # µ2<br>OB. Ho : µ1 = µ2 vS. Ha : H1 < µ2<br>ос. Но : Иј — И2 vs. Ha : Hi > H2<br>2. Calculate the test statistic.<br>?<br>V =<br>3. Calculate the p-value.<br>p-value =<br>

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