Chapter 11: Q.11.5 (page 459)
Regarding a sample proportion:
a. What is it?
b. What symbol is used for it?
Short Answer
(a) The sample proportion is the percentage of the sample obtained from the proportion.
(b) The symbol for sample proportion is
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Chapter 11: Q.11.5 (page 459)
Regarding a sample proportion:
a. What is it?
b. What symbol is used for it?
(a) The sample proportion is the percentage of the sample obtained from the proportion.
(b) The symbol for sample proportion is
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Vasectomies and Prostate Cancer. In the United States, approximately 450,000 vasectomies are performed each year. In this surgical procedure for contraception, the tube carrying sperm from the testicles is cut and tied. Several studies have been conducted to analyze the relationship between vasectomies and prostate cancer. The results of one such study by E. Giovannucci et al. appeared in the paper "A Retrospective Cohort Study of Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer in U.S. Men" (Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. , Pp. , Of 21,300 men who had not had a vasectomy, 69 were found to have prostate cancer; of 22,000 men who had had a vasectomy, 113 were found to have prostate cancer.
a. At the significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that men who have had a vasectomy are at greater risk of having prostate cancer? Consider men who had had a vasectomy Population
b. Is this study a designed experiment or an observational study Explain your answer.
c. In view of your answers to parts (a) and (b), could you reasonably conclude that having a vasectomy causes an increased risk of prostate cancer? 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.
Obtain a sample size that will ensure a margin of error of at most the one specified.
Margin of error
Confidence level
Prerequisites to this exercise are Exercises . Why do your graphs in parts (c) of those exercises illustrate the impact of increasing sample size on sampling error? Explain your answer.
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 91Ó°ÊÓ, 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.
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