2. The weights of turtles caught in two different lakes were measured to compare the effects of two lake environments on turtle growth. All the turtles were the same age and were tagged before being released into the lakes. The weights for $n_1 = 10$ tagged turtles caught in lake 1 and $n_2 = 8$ caught in lake 2 are listed here. Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicate a difference in the distributions of weights for the tagged turtles exposed to the two lake environments? Use the Wilcoxon rank sum test with $\alpha = 0.05$. Lake Weight (grams) 1 422 453 417 434 439 414 419 479 383 456 2 368 391 422 408 374 360 377 416
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Null hypothesis (H0): There is no difference in the weight distributions of the tagged turtles in the two lake environments. Alternative hypothesis (Ha): There is a difference in the weight distributions of the tagged turtles in the two lake environments. Show more…
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