You are an agricultural scientist whose research interests focus on the determining the mechanics of increasing profits per capita. You carried out a controlled experiment to investigate the effect of mechanical support on the yield of dragon fruit plants. The initial masses of fruit (in grams) a few days after flower pollination was produced by 20 control plants and 20 plants whose stems had been supported throughout their life. The data is as follows:

CONTROL:

9.6 10.8 7.6 12.0 14.1 9.5 10.1 11.4 9.1 8.8 9.2 10.3 10.8 8.3 12.6 11.1 10.4 9.4 11.9 8.6

SUPPORTED:

10.3 13.2 9.9 10.3 8.1 12.1 7.9 12.4 10.8 9.7 9.1 8.8 10.7 8.5 7.2 9.7 10.1 11.6 9.9 11.0

*NOTE: values are random replicates and are NOT related per column

Your intention is to determine whether support has a significant effect on yield. Choose the correct inferential test and make a statistical report to present your findings. Make sure to provide the following itemized contents:

1. "biological question" relating to potential differences/relationship in the data.

2. "statistical null hypothesis" that will best address the question.

3. draft a "descriptive statistics" section, describing quantitative measures of central tendency & dispersion (mean + SE, etc.) and data distribution (G1, G2 values and their description, etc.).

4. draft an "inferential statistics" section, showing the values for

one paragraph on testing assumptions (normal distributions, equal variances,

sphericity, etc.) based on the required test for each problem, and

one paragraph providing the answers for the inferential test, and posthoc (if

needed) 5. describe a "concluding statement"