A hospital would like to determine the mean length of stay for its patients having abdominal surgery. A sample of 23 patients reveale sample mean of 5.2 days and a sample standard deviation of 1.6 days. Assume that the lengths of stay are approximately normally distributed. Find a 99 % confidence interval for the mean length of stay for patients with abdominal surgery. Round the endpoints to decimal places, if necessary.
A hospital would like to determine the mean length of stay for its patients having abdominal surgery. A sample of 23 patients reveale sample mean of 5.2 days and a sample standard deviation of 1.6 days. Assume that the lengths of stay are approximately normally distributed. Find a 99 % confidence interval for the mean length of stay for patients with abdominal surgery. Round the endpoints to decimal places, if necessary.
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