1. What is the weight of the students before and after the intervention?

Descriptive Statistics
  Difference
Valid 16
Missing 0
Mean 10.409
Std. Error of
0.960
Mean
Std. Deviation 3.841

In the population, the researchers want to test the hypothesis that a 1000 excess calorie intake per day
over 8 weeks may result in 16 pounds (approximately 7.2 kilograms) weight increase. A sample of 16
participants who is sampled after the intervention has a mean of the difference in weight gain of 10.409. The
standard deviation is 3.841 which is high (less reliable).

2. Is there a significant difference in the weight of the students after the intervention.

One Sample T-Test

  t df p
Difference -5.823 15 < .001
Note.  For the Student t-test, the alternative hypothesis specifies that the mean is different from
16.
Note.  Student's t-test.

Assumption Checks

Test of Normality (Shapiro-Wilk)

  W p
Difference 0.938 0.325
Note.  Significant results suggest a deviation from
normality.

Answer:
Ho: 1000 excess calorie intake per day over 8 weeks results in 16 pounds (approximately 7.2 kilograms)
weight increase.
Ha: 1000 excess calorie intake per day over 8 weeks will not result in 16 pounds (approximately 7.2
kilograms) weight increase.
The data shows that 1000 excess calorie intake per day over 8 weeks results in 16 pounds
(approximately 7.2 kilograms) weight increase was very unlikely to happen. Thus, we must reject the null
hypothesis (Ho).
 Even if the thousand excessive calorie intakes weren’t able to increase the weight of the participant
to 16 pounds in 8 weeks there is still a significant difference in the weight of the students after the
intervention.
The researchers also used the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality because the population is less than fifty.
The results show that p > 0.05 meaning normal distribution is assumed but the population is small resulting
in high value of p. The analytical testing is not very reliable due to sample size.