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Clinic Waiting Time in a Random Sample of 20 Patients Who Visited

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Clinic Waiting Time
In a random sample of 20 patients who visited a clinic at Medical Center 1,a researcher found that the variance of the waiting time (in minutes)was 128.0.In a random sample of 15 patients in the clinic of Medical Center 2,the researcher found the variance to be 178.8. ​ ​
-{Clinic Waiting Time Narrative} Can we infer at the 5% level of significance that the population variances differ?


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Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Standard Deviation

An indicator that quantifies the extent of spread or diversity among values in a dataset, showing how far the values diverge from the average.

Retries

The number of attempts to perform an action after initial failures.

Variances

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; essentially, it quantifies how much the data points differ from the mean.

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