Paired t test for blood pressure data

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D. The Sunbeam Corporation makes a wide variety of appliances for the home. One product is a digital blood pressure gauge. For obvious reasons, the blood pressure readings made by the monitor need to be accurate. When a new model is being designed, one of the steps is to test it. To do this, a sample of people is selected. Each person has his/her systolic blood pressure taken by a highly respected physician. They then immediately have their systolic blood pressure taken using the Sunbeam monitor. If the mean blood pressure is the same for the monitor as it is as determined by the physician, the monitor is determined to pass the test.

In a recent test, 15 people were randomly selected to be in the sample. The blood pressure readings for these people using both methods are:

Systolic BP Systolic BP as measured as measured by a by Monitor physician

112 126

109 108

139 116

141 123

120 138

99 123

128 119

118 122

116 116

120 118

111 114

123 108

114 130

121 123

132 127

a. Based on the sample data and a significance level equal to 0.05, what conclusion should the Sunbeam engineers reach regarding the latest blood pressure monitor?

b. Conduct the test as a paired t-test.

c. Discuss which of the two procedures in parts a and b is more appropriate to analyze the data presented in this problem.

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