According to a recent warning from the FDA, grain-free food might be giving dogs a life- threatening heart problem called dilated cardiomyopathy, or DCM. Scientists interested in studying this link were trying to see if there was a difference in the average blood pressure between four different food types (expensive grain-free dog food, cheap grain-free dog food, expensive dog food with grain included, and cheap dog food with grain included). What hypothesis test would be appropriate for analyzing the above scenario?
z test of independent averages
chi-squared goodness of fit test
ANOVA
test of two proportions
paired t-test
chi-squared test of independence
t test of independent averages