The Confidence Interval for 5-Year Survival After Stage I Breast

question 7

Multiple Choice

The confidence interval for 5-year survival after Stage I breast cancer, in a large sample of women living in Texas, is 87.5% to 93.3%, at a p < 0.05 level of significance. What does this mean?

• A)Texan women in the near future will be likely to have about a 90% chance of living 5 years after they are newly diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer.
• B)Women in Texas with Stage I breast cancer have a 95% chance of 90% survival, over a 5-year period.
• C)Women in Texas with Stage I breast cancer have an 86% chance of 5-year survival.
• D)In any sample of women in Texas newly diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer, there is about a 95% chance that their collective survival 5 years from now will be around 90%.
• E)Women in Texas can feel 95% confident that they will survive Stage I breast cancer.

Understand the role of cultural and individual differences in perception.

Explain the physiological mechanisms underlying vision and hearing.

Comprehend how perception is constructed from sensory inputs.

Understand the principles of color perception and light wave properties.

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