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A researcher would like to determine if a specific breathing training will reduce the number of asthma attacks for chronic sufferers. For a week prior to the training, each subject records the numbe
Find the best-predicted weight for a car that weighs 5900 pounds. Do not round. Make sure you label your answer correctly.
The accompanying table lists x = weights (in hundreds of pounds) and y = highway fuel usage rates (in mi/gal) for a sample of domestic new cars.
Find the value of the linear correlation, r. Round to the nearest thousandth.
Assume that a random sample of nine measurements from a normally distributed population gives a sample mean of (xbar = 2.57) and a sample standard deviation of s=.3. Use critical values to test H0:u
What assumption must hold to make statistical inferences about a population variance?
Explain what a critical value is, and explain how it is used to test a hypothesis?
The 8 high-capacity rats had mean blood pressure 89 with standard deviation 9; the 8 low-capacity rats had mean blood pressure 105 with standard deviation 13. (Blood pressure is measured in millimet
The data below are the numbers of hours of homework done as reported by 24 high school juniors for the last week in September 2006.
Given: there is a linear correlation between state average commuting times and state average commuting cost. Conclusion:There is a linear correlation between individual commuting times and individual
Use the following data to answer the question x 0 - 2 1 1 2 y 2 - 2 5 4 8 Find an equation of the least squares regression line. Show all work. Also, find the predicted value when x = 1. Is there a
In January 2009, Gallup, Inc. conducted national poll of 1053 adults in the US. These adults were asked their views on an economic stimulus plan, and 548 favored passage.
State the population distribution (that is, the probability distribution of X for each observation) Find the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion who got relief among the 24 peop
According to the aaos 26.6% of all orthopedic treatments are to the knee. compute 95% confidence interval for the actual proportion of orthopedic treatments that are to the knee under the assumption
The placebo effect is particularly strong in patients with Parkinson's disease. To understand the workings of the placebo effect, scientists measure activity at a key point in the brain when patient
A study of commuting times reports the travel times to work of a random sample of 21 employed adults in New York State. The mean is xbar= 30.05 minutes and the standard deviation is s = 24.33 minut
You are testing H0: mean = 10 against Ha: mean < 10 based upon an SRS of 17 observations from a Normal population. The data give xbar = 9 and s = 4.5.
Suppose that simple random sample has been chosen from a normally distributed population and test the given claim. Identify the null and alternative hypothesis, test statistic, P-vale, critcal value
What is the test statistic? (round to two decimal places as needed.) What are the critical values? (Round to to decimal places as needed.) What is the P-Value? (round to four decimal places as needed.
Convert the frequency distribution into a probability distribution and graph the probability distribution using a relative frequency histogram.
The department of quality control takes a sample of 155 axle shafts in a lot and concluded that there are between 16.28% and 28.88% of the axle shafts in this lot which are outside the norms. Calcul
The daily sales of the store at Albany mall are normally distributed with a mean of $5,000 and a standard deviation of $1000.
Use z-scores to determine on which exam you were furthest above the mean, stats or theatre. Remember to show your calculations.
A disgruntled professor wants to carry out a hypothesis test to decide whether the mean salaries of faculty in private institutions and public institutions are different.
It is desired to test the null hypothesis: population mean is equal to 55, against the alternative hypothesis: population mean is less than 55, using a = 0.10.