Chapter 7: Problem 19
Assume your class has 30 students and you want a random sample of 10 of them. Describe how to randomly select 10 people from your class using the random number table.
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Chapter 7: Problem 19
Assume your class has 30 students and you want a random sample of 10 of them. Describe how to randomly select 10 people from your class using the random number table.
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The Perry Preschool Project was created in the early 1960 s by David Weikart in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In this project, 123 African American children were randomly assigned to one of two groups: One group enrolled in the Perry Preschool, and one group did not enroll. Follow-up studies were done for decades. One research question was whether attendance at preschool had an effect on high school graduation. The table shows whether the students graduated from regular high school or not and includes girls only (Schweinhart et al. 2005). $$\begin{array}{lcc}\hline & \text { Preschool } & \text { No Preschool } \\\\\hline \text { HS Grad } & 21 & 8 \\ \text { No HS Grad } & 4 & 17\end{array}$$ a. Find the percentages that graduated for both groups, and compare them descriptively. Does this suggest that preschool was associated with a higher graduation rate? b. Which of the conditions fail so that we cannot use a confidence interval for the difference between proportions?
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center report on social media use, \(28 \%\) of American adults use Instagram. Suppose a sample of 150 American adults is randomly selected. We are interested in finding the probability that the proportion of the sample who use Instagram is greater than \(30 \%\). a. Without doing any calculations, determine whether this probability will be greater than \(50 \%\) or less than \(50 \%\). Explain your reasoning. b. Calculate the probability that the sample proportion is \(30 \%\) or more.
In a simple random sample of 1200 Americans age 20 and over, the proportion with diabetes was found to be \(0.115\) (or \(11.5 \%)\). a. What is the standard error for the estimate of the proportion of all Americans age 20 and over with diabetes? b. Find the margin of error, using a \(95 \%\) confidence level, for estimating this proportion. c. Report the \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the proportion of all Americans age 20 and over with diabetes. d. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nationally, \(10.7 \%\) of all Americans age 20 or over have diabetes. Does the confidence interval you found in part c support or refute this claim? Explain.
In 2003 and 2017 Gallup asked Democratic voters about their views on the FBI. In \(2003,44 \%\) thought the \(\mathrm{FBI}\) did a good or excellent job. In \(2017,69 \%\) of Democratic voters felt this way. Assume these percentages are based on samples of 1200 Democratic voters. a. Can we conclude, on the basis of these two percentages alone, that the proportion of Democratic voters who think the FBI is doing a good or excellent job has increase from 2003 to \(2017 ?\) Why or why not? b. Check that the conditions for using a two-proportion confidence interval hold. You can assume that the sample is a random sample. c. Construct a \(95 \%\) confidence interval for the difference in the proportions of Democratic voters who believe the FBI is doing a good or excellent job, \(p_{1}-p_{2}\). Let \(p_{1}\) be the proportion of Democratic voters who felt this way in 2003 and \(p_{2}\) be the proportion of Democratic voters who felt this way in 2017 . d. Interpret the interval you constructed in part c. Has the proportion of Democratic voters who feel this way increased? Explain.
a. If a rifleman's gunsight is adjusted incorrectly, he might shoot bullets consistently close to 2 feet left of the bull's-eye target. Draw a sketch of the target with the bullet holes. Does this show lack of precision or bias? b. Draw a second sketch of the target if the shots are both unbiased and precise (have little variation). The rifleman's aim is not perfect, so your sketches should show more than one bullet hole.
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