Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric condition leading to substantial weight loss amon...

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric condition leading to substantial weight loss among women who are fearful of becoming fat. The article “Adipose Tissue Distribution After Weight Restoration and Weight Maintenance in Women with Anorexia Nervosa” (Amer. J. of Clinical Nutr., 2009: 1132–1137) used whole-body magnetic resonance imagery to determine various tissue characteristics for both an AN sample of individuals who had undergone acute weight restoration and maintained their weight for a year and a comparable (at the outset of the study) control sample. Here is summary data on intermuscular adipose tissue (IAT; kg).

Assume that both samples were selected from normal distributions. a. Calculate an estimate for true average IAT under the described AN protocol, and do so in a way that conveys information about the reliability and precision of the estimation.

b. Calculate an estimate for the difference between true average AN IAT and true average control IAT, and do so in a way that conveys information about the reliability and precision of the estimation. What does your estimate suggest about true average AN IAT relative to true average control IAT?