In: Statistics and Probability
In a study of police gunfire
reports during a recent year, it was found that among...
In a study of police gunfire
reports during a recent year, it was found that among 540 shots
fired by New York City police, 182 hit their targets; and among 283
shots fired by Los Angeles police, 77 hit their targets. We want to
use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that New York City
police and Los Angeles police have the same proportion of
hits.
- Test the claim using a hypothesis test.
- Test the claim constructing an appropriate confidence
interval.
- What are the null and alternative
hypotheses?
- What is the value of
α= significance
level?
- Is the test two-tailed, left-tailed or
right-tailed?
- What is the test statistic and what is its
distribution?
- What is the value of the test statistic?
- What is the P-value?
- What is (are) the critical value(s)?
- How would you state a conclusion that addresses the
original claim?