ngineer wishes Suppose you are a researcher ina nospitat. Tou are experimenting with a new tranquitizer. Tou collEct data from a random sample of 11 patients. The period of effectiveness of the tranquilizer for each patient (in hours) is as follows: Hours 3 2.9 2.5 2.5 3 2.7 2.4 2.7 3 3 What is a point estimate for the population mean length of time. (Round answer to 2 decimal places) 2.79 What must be true in order to construct a confidence interval in this situation?
Inverse Normal Distribution
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Mean, Median, Mode
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Z-Scores
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Given, the data from a random sample of n=11 patients regarding the period of effectiveness of tranquilizer for each patient.
The point estimate for the population mean length of time is obtained as-
In order to construct a confidence interval in this situation "The population must be approximately normal"
The required standard deviation for the sample is obtained as-
The degrees of freedom is obtained as-
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