TABLE 8-8 the President of a University Would Like to Estimate the Estimate

question 52

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TABLE 8-8
The president of a university would like to estimate the proportion of the student population that owns a personal computer. In a sample of 500 students, 417 own a personal computer.
-Referring to Table 8-8, it is possible that the 99% confidence interval calculated from the data will not contain the proportion of the student population who own a personal computer.

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

A threshold within statistical hypothesis testing that determines whether to accept or reject the null hypothesis, paralleling the concept of a significance level but emphasizing its critical value in analysis.

Means

The average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the number of values.

Populations

Refers to the entire group of individuals or items that are the subject of a statistical study.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis; it is used to determine the cutoff at which the test statistic is considered extreme.