MOD 4 CASE HEALTH STAT
A researcher conducts a test on the effectiveness of a cholesterol treatment on 114 total subjects. Assuming the tails of distributions are normal distribution, is there evidence that the treatment is effective?
Cholesterol Decreased | No Cholesterol Decrease | Total | |
Treatment | 38 | 18 | 56 |
No treatment | 30 | 28 | 58 |
Total | 68 | 46 | 114 |
Submit a (2-3 pages) paper before the end of the module that:
1. Briefly describe the procedure for testing hypotheses.
2. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses.
3. Determine the test statistic that you will use.
4. Calculate the p-value. Show your work.
5. Discuss whether there is enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis.