Arthritis Pain Formulas
a Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Has Been Researching New

question 84

Essay

Arthritis Pain Formulas
A pharmaceutical manufacturer has been researching new medications formulas to provide quicker relief of arthritis pain.Their laboratories have produced three different medications and they want to determine if the different medications produce different responses.Fifteen people who complained of arthritis pains were recruited for an experiment;five were randomly assigned to each medication.Each person was asked to take the medicine and report the length of time until some relief was felt (minutes).The results are shown below.(Assume normal distributions with equal variances. )
$$\begin{array}{l}\text { Time in Minutes Whtil pelef is Felt (min) }\\\begin{array} { | c c c | } \hline \text { Medication 1 } & \text { Medication 2 } & \text { Medication } 3 \\\hline 4 & 2 & 6 \\8 & 5 & 7 \\6 & 3 & 7 \\9 & 7 & 8 \\8 & 1 & 0 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$$
-{Arthritis Pain Formulas Narrative} Do these data provide sufficient evidence to indicate that differences in the average time of relief exist among the three medications? Use $\alpha$ = 0.05.

---

Definitions:

Organization Expense

Costs incurred in the creation and organization of a corporation, such as legal fees, that may be amortized over time.

Stock Warrant

A financial instrument that gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a company's stock at a specific price before a certain date.

Par Preferred Stock

Preferred shares of stock issued at a specified nominal value, known as the par value.

Common Stock Warrants

Financial derivatives that give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a company’s common stock at a specified price within a certain time frame.