Political Prisoners. A. Ehlers et al. studied various charac-teristics of political prisoners from the former East Germany and presented their findings in the paper “Posttraumatic Stress Disor-der (PTSD) Following Political Imprisonment: The Role of Mental Defeat, Alienation, and Perceived Permanent Change” (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 109, pp. 45–55). According to the arti-cle, the mean duration of imprisonment for 32 patients with chronic PTSD was 33.4 months. Assuming that σ = 42 months, determine a 95% confidence interval for the mean duration of imprisonment, μ, of all East German political prisoners with chronic PTSD. Interpret your answer in words.

Political Prisoners. A. Ehlers et al. studied various charac-teristics of political prisoners from the former East Germany and presented their findings in the paper “Posttraumatic Stress Disor-der (PTSD) Following Political Imprisonment: The Role of Mental Defeat, Alienation, and Perceived Permanent Change” (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 109, pp. 45–55). According to the arti-cle, the mean duration of imprisonment for 32 patients with chronic PTSD was 33.4 months. Assuming that σ = 42 months, determine a 95% confidence interval for the mean duration of imprisonment, μ, of all East German political prisoners with chronic PTSD. Interpret your answer in words.

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