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    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?

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    Construct the 98% confidence interval for the difference of the two population means
    <br>Let Md=µ1- µ2= 56.7 - 48.0 = 8.7
    <br>The estimated standard error, SMd, is computed assuming that the variances in the two populations are equal. when n1 &#8800; n2. The formula for MSE is:
    <br>MSE = SSE/df
    <br>where df is the ...

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    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?

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