Reginald Brown, an inspector from the Department of Weights and Measures, weighed 15 eighteen-ounce cereal boxes of corn flakes. He found their mean weight to be 17.8 ounces with a standard deviation of 0.4 ounces. At α = 0.01, are the cereal boxes lighter than they should be?

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.