A crossover study was conducted to investigate whether oat bran cereal helps to lower cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic males. Ten such individuals were randomly placed on a diet that included either oat bran or corn lakes; after two weeks, their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels were recorded. Each man was then switched to the al solutionspile.com

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A crossover study was conducted to investigate whether oat bran cereal helps to lower cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic males. Ten such individuals were randomly placed on a diet that included either oat bran or corn lakes; after two weeks, their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels were recorded. Each man was then switched to the alternative diet. After a second two-week period, the LDL cholesterol level of each individual was again recorded. The data from this study are shown below:

a) Are the two samples of data paired or independent?

b) what are the appropriate null and alternative hypothese for a two sided test?

c) conduct p-value test at the 0.05 level of significance.

d) conduct the critical value test at the 0.05 level of significance.

e) what do you conclude?

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\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|} \hline & LDL

(mmol / l)

& LDL

(mmol / l)

\\ \hline Subject & Corn Flakes & Oat Bran \\ \hline 1 & 4.61 & 3.84 \\ \hline 2 & 6.42 & 5.57 \\ \hline 3 & 5.40 & 5.85 \\ \hline 4 & 4.54 & 4.80 \\ \hline 5 & 3.98 & 3.68 \\ \hline 6 & 3.82 & 2.96 \\ \hline 7 & 5.01 & 4.41 \\ \hline 8 & 4.34 & 3.72 \\ \hline 9 & 3.80 & 3.49 \\ \hline 10 & 4.56 & 3.84 \\ \hline \end{tabular}

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