STAT 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simple Random Sample, Saturated Fat, Statistical Inference
15 Jan 2017
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In 1994 the center for science in the public interest (cspi) investigated nutri- tional characteristics of movie theatre popcorn, and found that the popcorn was often loaded with saturated fats. In 2009, the cspi revisited movie theatre popcorn. They found that in addition to the poor stated nutritional characteristics, in reality what was served at theatres actually contained more calories, fat, and saturated fat than was stated by the companies. Suppose that your local movie theatre chain claims that a large untopped bag of their popcorn contains 920 calories on average. You spend a little money to get a sample of 20 large bags of popcorn, have them analyzed, and nd that they contain 1210 calories on average. All bags of popcorn of this type: a parameter is a numerical characteristic of a population. The true mean calorie content of all bags of this type .
