Question 5.25

5.25 All the weight loss in half the time. Some medical researchers suspect that 30 minutes of daily exercise will be just as effective as 60 minutes of daily exercise in reducing weight. You have available 50 heavy but healthy people who are willing to serve as subjects.

  1. (a) Outline an appropriate design for the experiment.

  2. (b) The names of the subjects appear below. If you have access to statistical software, use it to carry out the randomization required by your design. Otherwise, use Table A, beginning at line 131, to do the randomization required by your design. List the subjects you will assign to the group who will do 30 minutes of daily exercise.

AlbrightLandgrafStagner
AshmeadLathropStettler
AsihiroLefevreTan
BaiLewisTang
BayerLiThomas
BillerLimTirmenstein
ChenMadaeniTompkins
CritchlowMartinTownsend
DavisPattonTurkmen
DobmeierPenzenikWang
HanPowellWestra
HotaitRenWilliams
HuRodriguezWinner
JoseySamaraYontz
JungSandersYulovitch
KhalafSchneiderZhang
KosterSmith