The Sunbeam Corporation makes a wide variety of appliances for the home.

One product
is a digital blood pressure gauge. For obvious reasons the blood pressure readings made
by the monitor need to be accurate. Whena new model is being designed, one of the
crucial step is to test it. To do this, a sample of people is selected. Each person has
his/her systolic blood pressure taken by a highly repsected physician. They immediately
have their systolic blood pressure taken using the Sunbeam monitor as that determined
by the physician, the monitor is determined to pass the test.

In a recent test 15 people were randomly selected to be in the sample. The blood
pressure readings for these pople, using both methods, are also contained in the data file

a. Based on the sample data and a significance level equal to 0.05, what conclusion
should Sunbeam engineers reach regarding the blood pressure monitor ? Discuss your
answer ina short statement.

b. Consider the context of this problem. Does it make sense to you that nay deviation
from the equality between the man blood pressure reading would be of interest/ Examine
the data to determine a, perhaps, more reasonable criterion.

c. Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the paired difference between the two mean
blood pressure readings. Would you consider Sunbeam blood pressure monotor to be a
good substitute for a doctor's blood pressure reading? Explain.
t-Test: Paired Two Sample for Means

Physician Monitor
Mean 120.2 120.7333
Variance 127.3143 63.78095
Observatio 15 15
Pearson Co 0.043438
Hypothesiz 0
df 14
t Stat -0.152582
P(T<=t) one 0.440453
t Critical on 1.76131
P(T<=t) two 0.880905
t Critical tw 2.144787
Physician Monitor
112 126
109 108
139 116
141 123
120 138
99 123
128 119
118 122
116 116
120 118
111 114
123 108
114 130
121 123
132 127
Sunbeam Blood Pressure Monitor Test

File: Sunbeam.xls
Column A Systolic BP as measured by a physician
Column B Systolic BP and measured by the monitor unit