In: Statistics and Probability
Nationally, patients who go to the emergency room wait an average of 5 hours to be admitted into the hospital. Do patients at rural hospitals have a lower waiting time? The 14 randomly selected patients who went to the emergency room at rural hospitals waited an average of 4.6 hours to be admitted into the hospital. The standard deviation for these 14 patients was 1 hours. What can be concluded at the the αα = 0.01 level of significance level of significance?
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e) The final conclusion is,
The data suggest that the population mean is not significantly lower than 5 at alpha=0.01,so there is statistically insignificant evidence to conclude that the population mean waiting time to be admitted into the hospital from the emergency room for patients at rural hospitals is equal to 5 hours