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Section 6.2 Exercises
(a) State Hq and Ha.
(b) Carry out the test and give the P-value, assuming that a = 0.4 in this population. Report your conclusion.
(c) Give a 95% confidence interval for the mean calcium level fi in this population. We are confident that fi lies ąuite close to 9.5. This illustrates the fact that a test based on a large sample (n = 180 here) will often declare even a smali deviation from Ho to be statistically significant.
6.49 Here are the Degree of Reading Power (DRP) scores for a sample of 44 third-grade students:
40 |
26 |
39 |
14 |
42 |
18 |
25 |
43 |
46 |
27 |
19 |
47 |
19 |
26 |
35 |
34 |
15 |
44 |
40 |
38 |
31 |
46 |
52 |
25 |
35 |
35 |
33 |
29 |
34 |
41 |
49 |
28 |
52 |
47 |
35 |
48 |
22 |
33 |
41 |
51 |
27 |
14 |
54 |
45 |
These students can be considered to be an SRS of the third-graders in a suburban school district. DRP scores are approximately normal. Suppose that the standard deviation of scores in this school district is known to be