A Doctor Wants to Know How Well Elderly Patients Remember

question 47

Short Answer

A doctor wants to know how well elderly patients remember to take their medicine.The doctor measures the percentage of times during the week patients remembered to take their medicine.For a sample of 10 patients, the sample mean percentage was 75 and the sample variance was 15.If the doctor could test his/her entire patient population, what would he/she expect the population variance to be?

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