Hypothesis Testing On Youths Going On Dates Committing Delinquent Acts

Question

You are interested in investigating whether youths that frequently go out on dates commit a different number of delinquent acts than youths that rarely go out on dates. You draw a random sample of 10 youths that frequently go out on dates, and a second random sample of 8 youths that infrequently go out on dates. You obtain the following data on the number of self-reported delinquent acts. Using α = 0.05, test the hypothesis that frequent daters commit a different number of delinquent acts.

Frequent dating: 2 3 2 0 1 4 2 3 2 3

Infrequent dating: 2 1 2 0 3 1 2 1

Summary

The question belongs to Statistics and it discusses about hypothesis testing on youths going on dates committing delinquent acts.

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