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Statiscal Treatment of Data The date collected in this study were organized and classified based from the

research design and the problem formulated. The data were coded, tallied tabulated to facilitate the presentation of the results using the following;

1. Frequency distribution Frequency distribution was used to organize the date into meaningful formats, summarize the date into simplest accounts and emphasize the date that are relevant to the study. It is a grouping date into categories showing the number of observation in each of a non-overlapping class. In categorical distribution it is used for date, which can be placed in specific categories such as nominal level date (e.g. marital status, income, gender, body mass index and etc.) In this study, the researcher used the frequency distribution as a statistical treatment to get the profile of the respondents according to gender and etc. in order to answer the researchers questions. 2. Weighted Mean A weighted mean is the average of values which are scaled by importance. The weighted average of values is the sum of weights times values divided by the sum of the weights. The statistical treatment of data used to determine the percentage of acquiring the profile of the respondents was the weighted mean formulas shown below: _ X =WX W where: X= weighted mean W= corresponding frequency of a particular value X= particular value 3. Variance Variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out. It is one of several descriptors of a probability distribution, describing how far the numbers lie from the mean (expected value). In particular, the variance is one of the moments of a distribution. The statistical treatment of data used to describing how far the numbers lie from the mean (expected value) Variance:

Variance, symbolized by s squared, equals 1 divided by the number of samples minus one, multiplied by the sum of each data point subtracted by the mean then squared.

4. T-test paired The T- test paired is used to identify pairs of values consisting of one observation from each of the two samples, where the blood pressure, and the same subjects are tested again after treatment with a blood-pressure lowering celery. In T-test paired first, each control value was subtracted from the corresponding treatment value and call the difference z. Afterwards, , , 2 ()2 / was calculated , where "n" is the number of pairs (z values). Subsequently, null hypothesis was constructed. In this case it would be appropriate to "expect" no difference between the groups (drug treatment versus controls). If this were true then the observed values of z would have a mean close to zero, with variation about this mean. Calculate: 2=2()2 2=21 = = 8

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