Babies Weighing Less Than 5

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Essay

Babies weighing less than 5.5 pounds at birth are considered "low-birth-weight babies." In the United States, 7.6% of newborns are low-birth-weight babies. The following information was accumulated from samples of new births taken from two counties.

a.Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate for the difference between the proportions of low-birth-weight babies in the two counties.
b.Is there conclusive evidence that one of the proportions is significantly more than the other? If yes, which county? Explain, using the results of part (a). Do not perform any test.

Know when and how to measure internal consistency reliability.

Recognize the difficulty in establishing construct validity and its significance.

Understand the equation that represents the relationship between observed scores, true scores, and error.

Understand how error impacts reliability and the general equation for reliability.

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