Full moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence
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Full moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic) and various magical phenomena In one study on dog bites, December 2003 issue of British Medical Journal, it was found that dog bite admissions to hospitals in England were twice as likely during a full moon. A Virginia mental health clinic, over a series of 12 full moons, studied the average number of patients per day admitted to its emergency room before a full moon, during a full moon, and after a full moon. Apply the appropriate hypothesis test, alpha = .01, to test the claim that there is a difference in the average number of emergency room admissions and that the average number of emergency room admissions. Determine the confidence interval for each group and identify if one particular estimation of the population mean is greater than the others. Comment on your results, in a minimum of five complete sentences.Explanation / Answer
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Ho: The average number of emergency rooms addmission befor, during and after the full moon are same
H1: The average number of emergency rooms addmission is atleast different among the befor, during and after the full moon.
The estimated p-value of Moon is 0.020 and larger than 0.01 level of significance. Hence, we can not reject the null hypothesis and conclude that number of patients addmitted at the hospital rooms in the period before, during and after the full moon are insignificant at 0.01 level of significance.
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From the above table we can see that the confidence interval of pairs mean difference between the Before and During does not include zero. Hence, we can conclude that only the Before and during are significant and also can say that during moon, the number of patients addmited to hospital is highest.
Tests of Between-Subjects Effects Dependent Variable:Patient Source Type III Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig. Corrected Model 112.712a 2 56.356 4.404 .020 Intercept 5565.160 1 5565.160 434.872 .000 Moon 112.712 2 56.356 4.404 .020 Error 422.308 33 12.797 Total 6100.180 36 Corrected Total 535.020 35Related Questions
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