A University Dean Is Interested in Determining the Proportion of Students

question 125

Short Answer

A university dean is interested in determining the proportion of students who receive some sort of financial aid.Rather than examine the records for all students,the dean randomly selects 200 students and finds that 118 of them are receiving financial aid.Use a 90% confidence interval to estimate the true proportion of students who receive financial aid.

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Definitions:

Alpha Generated

The excess returns of a portfolio over the benchmark's returns, attributable to the skill of the portfolio manager rather than the market movement.

Regression Equations

Statistical methods used to estimate the relationships among variables, often employed to predict future trends based on historical data.

Intercept

In regression analysis, the constant term that represents the value of the dependent variable when all the independent variables are zero.

Alpha

In finance, a measure of performance on a risk-adjusted basis, calculating the excess return of an investment relative to the return of a benchmark index.