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A clinical trial was conducted to test the effectiveness of a drug used for treating insomnia in older subjects. After treatment with the drug, 23 subjects had a mean wake time of 96.1 min and a standard deviation of 43.3 min. Assume that the 23 sample values appear to be from a normally distributed population and construct a 90 % confidence interval estimate of the standard deviation of the wake times for a population with the drug treatments. Does the result indicate whether the treatment is effective?
Find the confidence interval estimate.
_______min <sigma< ______min
We have given here,
Sample standard deviation=43.3
Sample size =23
Degree of freedom =n-1= 22
Level of significance given =1-0.90=0.1
Chi square critical value for lower tail=12.338
Chi square critical value for upper tail=33.924
We can use here confidence interval formula for population standard
deviation
=(34.8695,57.8198)
Lower confidence limit for population standard
deviation=34.87
Upper confidence limit for Population standard
deviation=57.82