Joe plays basketball for the Wildcats and missed some of the season due to an injury. He did soune calculations that showed the mean number of points scored by his team was greater when he played than when he did not play. Here we test whether or not the mean was significantly greater The table summarizes this data where the i's are actually population means but we treat them like sample means. The degrees of freedom (d.f.) is given to save calculation time if you are not using software The Test: Test the claim that the mean points scored by the team was significantly greater when Joe played. Use a 0.05 significance level With Joe () 12 74.1 12.5 6.52 Without Joe (865.7 38.2 6.18 d.. 16 1 • Example 1: Using the given data, test the claim that the mean cholesterol level for all men who is the drug is less than the mean for those who do not use the drug. Assume both populations are normally distributed and use a 0.05 significance level. men Cholesterol Levels in mg/dL. No Drug (13) 237 289 257 228 303 275 262 304 214 233 263.2 811.1 28.6 Drug (12) 194 210 230 186 266 222 242 281 240 212 231.2 864.0 29.4 1. Here we are claiming that which means > Or-2 > 0.