Medicine and Clinical Studies
A new surgical procedure has been developed to remove cataracts; it involves a smaller incision. This more expensive procedure will be implemented at a major hospital only if there is evidence that the standard deviation in time to recovery is less than seven days.
A random sample of patients will receive the new procedure, and the resulting recovery times will be used to test the relevant hypothesis. Let σ be the population standard deviation in recovery time. State the null and alternative hypotheses in terms of σ.