You Have Conducted a Study Where You Were Interested in the Amount

Essay

You have conducted a study where you were interested in the amount of menthol cigarette consumption (cigarettes per day) among black females. Your results suggested that the average number of menthol cigarettes consumed per day was 3.0. The national average number of menthol cigarettes smoked per day for females was 2.5. Assuming normality, you conducted a one-sample t-test to test H₀: µ = 2.5 versus µ >2.5. You get a p-value of 0.08. Interpret the results.