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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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You are a biomedical researcher and you want to know if the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy affects the birthweight of babies. You know that the average birthweight for babies in the U.S. is m= 7.5 pounds. You draw a random sample of 16 infants whose mothers indicated that they regularly consumed alcohol during pregnancy. The sample had a mean of 6.50 and a standard deviation of 1.50.

State the null hypothesis.
Identify the appropriate statistical test
Calculate the appropriate test statistic.Make sure to report the degrees of freedom
State your conclusions (use a two-tailed test with a = .05 for all tests).
Compute an effect size.

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