Reference no: EM13371471

The data for patients give below who went through blood pressure monitoring has been uploaded to the SAS server (also uploaded in the class schedule). Each column in the file is tab separated from the other. (Note: Data in the file is same as the data you analyzed for your second assignment. So, you should already know how to read the data from the file to create the SAS dataset. But please bear in mind that you would be performing different analysis on this data in this assignment)

First column contains patient's Gender (1=male 2= female) Second column contains patient's Age Third column contains patient's Systolic blood pressure Fourth column contains patient's Diastolic blood pressure

As an investigator of a clinical trial, you are interested to examine if gender (male and female) has a role to play on blood pressure of the 161 randomly selected subjects in your dataset.

Question 1: One of your co-investigators is claiming that in general, Systolic blood pressure of women is always lower than that of men.

Question 1A: Based on the lecture on t-test and the dataset you have (explained above), which type of t-test is most appropriate to investigate your co-investigator's claim? Why is it most appropriate t- test? Please explain your answer in 1-2 lines.

Question 1B: In SAS, run the appropriate t-test you chose in Question 1A to verify your co- investigator's claim. Is his claim valid? According to your SAS output, explain why his claim is or isn't valid. Provide SAS code, SAS output and explanation of your answer in 1-2 lines.

Question 2: As part of your investigation, you gave all the subjects a drug to reduce Systolic blood pressure and observed their Systolic blood pressure before and after taking the drug.

Question 2A: Consider the same data file as explained above and replace the variable Systolic blood pressure (third column of the data file) with Systolic blood pressure before taking the drug and also replace the Diastolic blood pressure (last column of the data file) with Systolic blood pressure after taking the drug. Notice you have two variables now, ‘Systolic before' and ‘Systolic after' instead of Systolic and Diastolic blood pressure respectively on the same subjects (161 males and females). (Please note that you are just renaming the columns, the data remains the same.)

Question 2B: You are claiming that the drug decreases the Systolic blood pressure in the subjects. Perform a paired t-test to verify your claim. Is your claim valid? Provide the appropriate t- test SAS code, SAS output and explain in 1-2 lines if your claim is or isn't valid based on your observation. 

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