Many mothers experience a sense of depression shortly after the birth of a child. Design a study to examine postpartum depression and, from material in this chapter, tell how you would estimate the...

Many mothers experience a sense of depression shortly after the birth of a child. Design a study to examine postpartum depression and, from material in this chapter, tell how you would estimate the mean increase in depression.

In Exercise 7.25, we saw data from Everitt that showed that girls receiving cognitive behavior therapy gained weight over the course of that therapy. However, it is possible that they just gained weight because they got older. One way to control for this is to look at the amount of weight gained by the cognitive therapy group (n 5 29) in contrast with the amount gained by girls in a Control group (n 5 26), who received no therapy. The data on weight gain for the two groups is shown below.

Run the appropriate test to compare the group means. What would you conclude?