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How much does a typical employee and his or her family spend per year on dental expenses? A sample of 45 employees reveals the mean amount spent last year was $1,820, with a standard deviation of $
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, self-employed persons with home-based businesses work an average of 23 hours per week at home. Which of the following 95% two-sided confidence inter
If a wildlife service wishes to estimate the mean number of days of hunting per hunter for all hunters licensed in the state during a given season, with a bound on the error of estimation equal to 2
A chemist who has prepared a product designed to kill a particular type of insect wants to evaluate the kill rate of her preparation.
Find the maximum likelihood estimator of theta, and observe that it is a function of this geometric mean.
The following table details the experiences of participating men and women. The data below are years of death or years of last contact for men and women. Estimate the survival functions for eac
A seed company claims that its variety of seeds has a 90% germination rate. For a sample of 800 seeds, 700 germinated. Can we conclude at the 0.05 level that in general the germination rate is less
High-Potassium Foods Potassium is important to good health in keeping fluids and minerals balanced and blood pressure low. High-potassium foods are those that contain more than 200 mg per serving.
In an inertia welding experiment, a sample of 50 welds were tested. The sample mean and sample standard deviation of the breaking strengths of these welds were found to be 94 ksi (thousand pounds pe
What is the final task after completing the analysis of significant results? Why is the size effect useful at this stage?
How would you explain the analysis of variance, assuming that your audience has not had a statistics class before?
Desrcribe situations where a normal distribution provides a good approximatioon of the sampling distribution of the mean?
The null hypothesis is to be tested at the 1% level of significance. Determine the critical value from the table.
We are supposing that the proportion of all adults who think that two children is ideal is p=0.52. What is the probability that a sample proportion falls between 0.49 and 0.55(that is, within + or -
Given the following sample data: 104, 110, 114, 97, 105, 113, 106, 101, 100, 107. Give a point estimate of the population variance s2.
Consider the following simple model for daily changes in the price of a stock. Suppose that on each day, the price either go up $1 with probability 0.55 or goes down $1 with probability 0.45. Suppos
Find a 90% confidence interval for the true variance visible albedo value of all Canadian Arctic ice ponds in column L to T. What is the interpretation of the intervals gotten in (b) and (c)?
Let X1, X2, X3 be a random sample of size n=3 from the Poisson distributions with respective means l1 = 4, l2= 5, l3= 5.
Reject H0. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean number of drinks consumed on a Saturday night is less than 7.
The final scores of NFL games were compared against the final points spreads and the difference between the game outcome and point spread (called a point-spread error) was calculated for 240 NFL gam
1. Describe the data that are collected for an independent-measures t test and the hypotheses the test evaluates.
The whole truckload will be rejected if more than 4% of the sample is unsatisfactory. Suppose that in fact 7& of the apples on the truck do not meet the desired standard. What's the probability
Consider the linear model for the randomized complete block design with a=3 and b=4. Give the normal equation for this model
1. In exponential smoothing, if the smoothing constant, alpha, is 1, you will get the same forecast as obtainable using the last period technique.