Shrimp Is an Increasingly Popular Part of the American Diet

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Essay

Shrimp is an increasingly popular part of the American diet.Louisiana shrimpers who represent the bulk of the U.S.industry were almost all put out of business by Hurricane Katrina.How did the hurricane affect the equilibrium price and quantity of shrimp?

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Definitions:

Sample Proportions

The percentage of times a characteristic occurs in a sample as compared to the total sample size.

Population Variances

A measure of dispersion that indicates how much individual members of a population deviate from the population mean.

Rejection Region

In hypothesis testing, the range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion of all the data points in a population from the mean.