Chapter 11: Q. 11.31 (page 460)
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
Short Answer
The required sample size is
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Chapter 11: Q. 11.31 (page 460)
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
The required sample size is
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Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
11.98 Consider a hypothesis test for two population proportions with the null hypothesis . What parameter is being estimated by the
a. sample proportion ?
b. sample proportion ?
c. pooled sample proportion ?
Racial Crossover. In the paper "The Racial Crossover in Comorbidity, Disability, and Mortality" (Demography, Vol. 37(3), pp. 267-283), N. Johnson investigated the health of independent random samples of white and African-American elderly (aged 70 years or older). Of the 4989 white elderly surveyed, 529 had at least one stroke, whereas 103 of the 906 African-American elderly surveyed - Lported at least one stroke. At the significance level, do the data suggest that there is a difference in stroke incidence between white and African-American elderly?
Is College Worth It? In the New York Times article "College Graduates Fare Well in Jobs Market, Even Through Recession," C. Rampell noted that college graduates have suffered through the recession and lackluster recovery with remarkable resilience. Of a random sample of 1020 college graduates, 35 were unemployed; and of a random sample of 1008 high-school graduates (no college), 69 were unemployed.
a. At the 1 T significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that college graduates have a lower unemployment rate than high-school graduates?
b. Find and interpret a confidence interval for the difference in unemployment rates of college and high-school graduates.
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.
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