Question

Dr. Carlton conducts a study to determine the effectiveness of a new intervention for those suffering from eating disorders. He compares patients' weights before the intervention to the same patients' weights after the intervention. What is the appropriate statistical test? independent-samples t test between-subjects, one-way ANOVA. O Mann-Whitney U test O paired samples t test

Answer 1

Solution-

to test that effectiveness of new intervention.

So, data is in the form before the intervention and after the intervention on same patient.

this is paired samples data.

both are from same patient before and after.

for this type of data we use paired samples t test

The appropriate statistical test is-

● paired samples t test