Discuss the below:
Q: Infants weighing more that 1700 grams who require respiratory assistance within the first 24 hours of birth and met other clinical criteria.
The following table is a result of measurements of plasma volume (ml) made during mechanical ventilation.
subject / sample sz/ sample mean/ sample st. dev.
paralyzed/ 5 48.0 8.1
nonparalyzed/ 7 56.7 8.1
You may assume equal standard deviations. Construct a 98% confidence interval for the difference of the two population means. Do you think there is a difference between the two population means?