Scenario 1 A medical researcher was interested in researchin

Scenario #1: A medical researcher was interested in researching stress. The researcher collected the number of recent stressful life events from a randomly selected group of cardiac patients and another group of orthopedic patients from the same hospital. Since research has shown that stressful life events (marriage, new job, death of spouse, etc.) are associated with illness, the researcher wants to know if, on average, the cardiac patients would have experienced more stressful life events compared to the orthopedic patients. what statistical test would I run and why?

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