Asked by Jimmy Trinh on Jul 05, 2024
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A sample of 36 patients in a doctor's office showed that they had to wait an average of 45 minutes with a standard deviation of 10 minutes before they could see the doctor.Provide a 90% confidence interval estimate for the average waiting time of all the patients who visit this doctor.
Confidence Interval
An aggregation of values, through the analysis of sample data, projected to enclose the secret value of a population trait.
Waiting Time
The time that elapses from a point of request until the commencement of a service or response.
- Construct intervals of confidence for means within populations with either known or undetermined population standard deviations.
- Distinguish between the impact of sample size and the level of confidence on the breadth of a confidence interval.
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Learning Objectives
- Construct intervals of confidence for means within populations with either known or undetermined population standard deviations.
- Distinguish between the impact of sample size and the level of confidence on the breadth of a confidence interval.