Suppose that you would like to determine if the use of the newest Sweeney education intervention will improve students understanding of statistics better than the use of no intervention. In order to...

Suppose that you would like to determine if the use of the newest Sweeney education

intervention will improve students understanding of statistics better than the use of no intervention. In order to do this, you select two groups of students at random from students who need to take Statistics: a group given the intervention and another group that is given the standard statistics class. At the end of the course, the students were given an exam and the exam scores were compared.



Group 1: Students given the intervention
Group 2: Students in the standard Statistics class

Use this information to answer the following questions:
a. What test should you run and why?
b. What is the null hypothesis? What is the alternative hypothesis?
c. What requirements would have to be met to insure that you could run the test?