The paired t-test should be used in order to test if a new vaccine works for patients or not.
For this first of all we set Null hypothesis as
H0: mu d =0 i.e. ( that vaccine have no effect on patients)
H1: mu d ≠0 ( vaccine has effect on patients)
Where, mu d is the difference in mean before and after vaccination.
Under H0 , test statistic
t= d bar/√(s^2/n) follows t statistic with (n-1) df
If calculated t is greater than t(alpha) for n-1 df then we reject h0 and concluded that vaccine work and if calculated t is less than t(alpha) for (n-1) df then we do not reject h0 and concluded that vaccine does not work.
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