What kind of socks work best for people suffering with diabetes? Thirty people w

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What kind of socks work best for people suffering with diabetes? Thirty people with diabetes are asked to wear two different kinds of socks over the course of two weeks. Each of the participants will wear one pair of socks for an entire week, and will fill out a comfort rating scale. Then each participant is to wear the other pair of socks and complete the comfort rating scale once again after the next week. in order to determine if the two pairs of socks differ in comfort for diabetic participants, which statistical test should be used.

a.Repeated measures t-test/paired-samples t-test

b.sing sameple z test

c.independent measures t-test

d.single sample t-test

Explanation / Answer

Here the subjects means participants used to test in both cases are same.

Means these two samples are not independent ,the samples are dependant or paired.

So in order to determine if the two pairs of socks diiffer in comfort for diabetic participants we should use Repeated measures t-test / paired samples t-test.

Answer is " A"

A:. Repeated measures t-test/paired t-test

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