Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences
Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781319013370
Author: Brigitte Baldi, David S. Moore
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.8AYK

(a)

To determine

To find: the percent of the smokers stayed alive for 20 years and the percent of thenon-smokerssurvived

(b)

To determine

To show:a higher percent of nonsmokers remained alive for 20 years and explain why this is an example of Simpson's paradox.

(c)

To determine

To compare: the percentage of smokers in the three age groups.

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