Our bodies have a natural electrical field that is known to help wounds heal. Does changing the field strength slow healing? A series of experimentswith newts investigated this question. In one experiment, the two hind limbs of 12 newts were assigned at random to either experimental (treatment) or control groups. This is a matched pairs design. The electrical field in the experimental limbs was reduced to zero by applying a voltage. The control limbs were left alone. The table on the right shows the rates at which new cells closed a razor cut in each limb, in micrometers per hour. The data can accessedHERE.
Let μ1μ1 and μ2μ2 be the mean healing rate of the control and the treatment respectively and μ=μ1−μ2μ=μ1−μ2. We wish to conduct a matched pair two sample tt-test with α=0.05α=0.05.
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