Question

Forest bathing, also called Shinrin-yoku, is the practice of taking short, leisurely walks in a forest to enhance positive health. To test the usefulness of this practice, the time forest bathing per day was recorded among eight patients with depression who subsequently showed a marked reduction in their symptoms over the last week. The data are given in the table.

Time Spent in the Forest (in hours)

4.1

4.8

5.1

3.9

4.3

5.6

4.2

4.5

(a) Find the confidence limits at a 95% CI for this sample. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
to hours per day

(b) Suppose the null hypothesis states that the average time spent forest bathing among patients is 3.5 hours per day. What would the decision be for a two-tailed hypothesis test at a 0.05 level of significance?

Retain the null hypothesis because the value stated in the null hypothesis is within the limits for the 95% CI. Reject the null hypothesis because the value stated in the null hypothesis is outside the limits for the 95% CI.     Reject the null hypothesis because the value stated in the null hypothesis is within the limits for the 95% CI. Retain the null hypothesis because the value stated in the null hypothesis is outside the limits for the 95% CI.

Answer 1