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Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing
a) Consider collecting a sample of 16 random independent
values from...
Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing
- a) Consider collecting a sample of 16 random independent
values from a population with Gaussian distribution whose mean is
20 and variance is 9. Determine the 90-percent confidence interval
for the sample mean.
- b) Repeat part (a) with the assumption that the population
variance is unknown; but assume that you have determined that the
unbiased estimate of the variance is 9 for your sample.
- c) Assume that the mean and variance of the population are
unknown; but there is a claim that the population mean is 20.
Additionally, assume that you take a sample of size 16 that gives a
sample mean of 18.6 and an unbiased estimate of the variance of 9.
Should you accept this claim with a 95% confidence
level?
- d) Repeat part (c) for a claim that the population mean is
at least 20.