In a test of the effectiveness of garlic for lowering choles…
In a test of the effectiveness of garlic for lowering cholesterol, 49 subjects were treated with raw garlic. Cholesterol levels were measured before and after the treatment. The changes (before minus after) in their levels of LDL cholesterol had a mean of 0.4 and a standard deviation of 21.0 (based on data from “based on data from “Effect of Raw Garlic vs. Commercial Garlic Supplements on Plasma Lipid Concentrations in Adults with Moderate Hypercholesterolemia, by Gardner et al., Archives of Internal medicine, Vol. 167). a. Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate of the mean net change in LDL cholesterol after the garlic treatment. b. State your answer to part a in a complete sentence that refers to the context of the problem.
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