Give an example of a Sample Mean that a Health Professional

Give an example of a Sample Mean that a Health Professional would like to make a Statistical Inference about and why doing such a Statistical Inference is important. Your answer MUST include the target Populations of your Statistical Inference activities(sample mean, sample variance and standard deviation) along with what is actually being measured.

Solution

Suppose a health prefossional is interested in the effects of medication on the diastolic blood pressure of adult women. The target population is all women. He selected sample of 9 women. For a particular drug being investigated, the sample mean is 85 and the sample variance is 160.78.