Researchers want to know if subjects who were diagnosed with hypertension at some point over the 24 year follow-up had a different mean BMI score at the initial exam than subjects who were not diagnosed with hypertension. a. What are the correct null and research hypotheses for this question? b. The following output was obtained from SPSS. What would our conclusion be based on this output? You need to write more than one sentence for your conclusion.
Group Statistics
HYPERTENSION | N | Mean | Std. Deviation | Std. Error Mean | |
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BMI | Yes | 367 | 26.8171 | 4.04916 | .21136 |
No | 112 | 24.0336 | 3.30420 | .31222 |
Independent Samples Test
Levene's Test for Equality of Variances | t-test for Equality of Means | |||||||||
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F | Sig. | t | df | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean DifferenceM.th> | Std. Error Difference | 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference | |||
Lower | Upper | |||||||||
BMI | Equal variances assumed | 5.439 | .020 | 6.631 | 477 | .000 | 2.78349 | .41977 | 1.95865 | 3.60832 |
Equal variances not assumed | 7.383 | 221.920 | .000 | 2.78349 | .37703 | 2.04046 | 3.52651 |
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