MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
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Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 9 patients. The period of effectiveness of the tranquilizer for each patient (in hours) is as follows:

 

2.3
3
2.1
2.7
2.3
2.7
2.2
2.4
2.2



a. What is a point estimate for the population mean length of time. (Round answer to 4 decimal places)

 



b. Which distribution should you use for this problem?

 

  • t-distribution
  • normal distribution



c. Why? 


d. What must be true in order to construct a confidence interval in this situation?  

  • The sample size must be greater than 30
  • The population mean must be known
  • The population standard deviation must be known
  • The population must be approximately normal



e. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the population mean length of time. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) Round upper and lower bounds to two decimal places 

f. Interpret the confidence interval in a complete sentence. Make sure you include units 

g. What does it mean to be "99% confident" in this problem? Use the definition of confidence level. 

  • 99% of all simple random samples of size 9 from this population will result in confidence intervals that contain the population mean
  • There is a 99% chance that the confidence interval contains the population mean
  • The confidence interval contains 99% of all samples



h. Suppose that the company releases a statement that the mean time for all patients is 2 hours.

Is this possible?

  • Yes
  • No



 Is it likely?

  • No
  • Yes
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