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In a reading test, 90 pupils out of 140 passed the test. The sample mean was 78. Find and q where p was the proportion of these who passed the test. Estimate the population proportions.

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
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ISBN: 9781938168208

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Which of the following is NOT true when testing a claim about a​proportion?

A. If you want to test a claim about population​ proportions, use the​ P-value method or the classical method of hypothesis testing.

B. When testing claims about population​ proportions, the traditional method and the​ P-value method are equivalent in the sense that they always yield the same result.

C. A conclusion based on a confidence interval estimate will be the same as a conclusion based on a hypothesis test.

D. Both the traditional method and​ P-value method use the same standard deviation based on the claimed proportion​ p, but the confidence interval uses an estimated standard deviation based on the sample proportion ModifyingAbove p with caretp.

6. As the test statistic becomes larger, the p-value

(a) gets smaller

(b) becomes larger 

(c) stays the same, since the sample size has not been changed

(d) becomes negative.

 

7. To describe the sampling distribution of the sample proportion, we use

(a) The sample proportion 

(b) The population proportion 

(c) The population mean

(d) The population mean

 

8. When small samples are used to estimate a population mean, in cases where the population standard deviation is unknown and the original distribution is normal:

(a) There always will be a large amount of sampling error.

(b) the t-distribution must be used to obtain the critical value.

(c) the resulting margin of error for a confidence interval estimate will tend to be fairly small.

(d) the z distribution must be used to obtain the critical value.

 

 

Never forget that even small effects can be statistically significant if the samples are large. During a three-year period, 8 of the 57 headed by men and 6 of the 35 headed by women failed.

(a) Find the proportions of failures for businesses headed by women and businesses headed by men. These sample proportions are quite close to each other. Give the p-value for the hypothesis that the same proportion of women's and men's businesses fail. (Use two-sided alternative). What can we conclude (use alpha as 0.05)?

The p-value was ___________ so we conclude that ____________.

 

(b) Now suppose that the same sample proportion came from a sample 30 times as large. That is 180 out of 1050 businesses headed by women and 240 out of 1710 businesses headed by men fail. Verify that the proportions of failures are exactly the same as in part (a). Repeat the test for the new data. What can we conclude?

The p-value was ___________ so we conclude that ____________.

c) It is wise to use a confidence interval to estimate the size of an effect rather than just giving a p-value. Give 95% confidence intervals for the difference between proportions of men's and women's businesses that fail for the settings of both (a) and (b).

Interval for smaller samples: ___________ to ___________.

Interval for larger samples: ___________ to ___________.

What is the effect of larger samples on the confidence interval?

 

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