Suppose in a survey of n 400 students 215 responded that


Suppose in a survey of N = 400 students, 215 responded that they prefer small classes and 185 responded that they prefer large classes. Let p denote the fraction of all students who preferred small classes at the time of the survey, and ˆp be the fraction of survey respondents who preferred small classes. (Hint: X is distributed as a Bernoulli random variable) (a) Show that E(ˆp) = p and Var(ˆp) = p(1 ? p)/N. (b) Use the survey result to estimate p, and calculate the standard error of your estimator. (Hint: Notice that this is the same as estimating the sample mean) (c) What is the p-value for the test H0 : p = 0.5 vs. H1 : p 6= 0.5? Will you reject the null at the 5% significance level? (d) Construct a 95% confidence interval for p.

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