Exercise 5.1 You want to determine if meditation can reduce resting pulse rate. Participants were recruited and randomly assigned to one of two groups: Members of Group 1 (the control group) did not meditate; members of Group 2 (the treatment group) meditated for 30 minutes per day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays over the course of 2 weeks. At the end of the study, you gathered the resting pulse rates for each participant.

Data set: Ch 05 - Exercise 01A.sav Codebook Variable: group Definition: Meditation group assignment Type: Categorical (1 = No meditation, 2 = Meditates 3 days)

Variable: pulse Definition: Pulse rate measured in number of beats per minute Type: Continuous 1. Write the hyp