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?
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Cholesterol Decreased
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No Cholesterol Decrease
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Total
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Treatment
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38
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18
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56
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No treatment
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30
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28
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58
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Total
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68
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46
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114
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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 hypoth