OCR S4 2016 June — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

2 Low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is known as 'bad' cholesterol.
15 randomly chosen patients, each with an LDL level of 190 mg per decilitre of blood, were given one of two treatments, chosen at random. After twelve weeks their LDL levels, in mg per decilitre, were as follows.
Treatment \(A\)189168176186183187188
Treatment \(B\)177179173180178170175174
Use a Wilcoxon rank sum test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, to test whether the LDL levels of patients given treatment \(B\) are lower than the LDL levels of patients given treatment \(A\).