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Chapter 11: Q. 11.112 (page 477)
Vasectomies and Prostate Cancer. Refer to Exercise 11.106 and determine and interpret a confidence interval for the difference between the prostate cancer rates of men who have had a vasectomy and those who have not.
There is interval for the difference between the proportion is
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We have given a likely range for the observed value of a sample proportion
a. Based on the given range, identify the educated guess that should be used for the observed value of to calculate the required sample size for a prescribed confidence level and margin of error.
b. Identify the observed values of the sample proportion that will yield a larger margin of error than the one specified if the educated guess is used for the sample-size computation.
Margin of error
Confidence level
Educated guess
(a) Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified (provided of course that the observed value of the sample proportion is further from that of the educated guess.
(b). Compare your answer to the corresponding one and explain the reason for the difference, if any.
Indicted Governor. On Thursday, June 13, 1996, thenArizona Governor Fife Symington was indicted on counts of fraud and extortion. Just hours after the federal prosecutors announced the indictment, several polls were conducted of Arizonans asking whether they thought Symington should resign. A poll conducted by Research 91影视, Inc., that appeared in the Phoenix Gazette, revealed that of Arizonans felt that Symington should resign; it had a margin of error of plus or minus percentage points. Another poll, conducted by Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center and appearing in the Tempe Daily News, reported that of Arizonans felt that Symington should resign; it had a margin of error of plus or minus percentage points. Can the conclusions of both polls be correct? Explain your answer.
a. Determine the sample proportion.
b. Decide whether using the one-proportion test is appropriate.
c. If appropriate, use the one-proportion test to perform the specified hypothesis test.
1Neutropenia. Neutropenia is an abnormally low number o neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in the blood. Chemotherapy often reduces the number of neutrophils to a level that makes the patient susceptible to fever and infections. G. Bucaneve et al. published a study of such cancer patients in the paper "Levofloxacin to Prevent Bacterial Infection in Patients With Cancer and Neutropenia" (New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 353, No, 10, pp. 977-987). For the study. 375 patients were randomly assigned to receive a daily dose of levofloxacin, and 363 were given a placebo. In the group receiving levofloxacin, fever was present in 243 patients for the duration of neutropenia, whereas fever was experienced by 308 patients in the placebo group.
a. At the1% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that levofloxacin is effective in reducing the occurrence of fever in such patients?
b. Find a98% confidence level for the difference in the proportions of such cancer patients who would experience fever for the duration of neutropenia
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