Chapter 6: Q87-E (page 367)
Question: 6.87 NFL player survey. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Wharton Sports Business Initiative collaborated with the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) to produce the first NFL Player Survey. Of the 1,696 active NFL players, 1,355 (almost 80%) responded to the survey. One of the survey questions asked, 鈥淲ho is the coach鈥攑rofessional, college, or high school鈥攖hat has been the most influential in your career?鈥 Of the 1,355 respondents, 759 selected an NFL (professional) coach.
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of active NFL players who select a professional coach as the most influential in their careers.
b. Why is it necessary to use the continuity correction factor in the construction of the interval, part a?
c. Give a practical interpretation of the interval, part a.
Short Answer
- The required confidence interval is (0.5481, 0.5721).
- The finite population correction factor should be included in the standard error calculation for true proportion.
- It is 95% confident that the true proportion of active NFL players who selected a professional coach as most influential is between 0.548 and 0.572.