In: Statistics and Probability
The table below gives the average high temperatures in January and July for 12 random cities in a region with 180 cities. Write a 95% confidence interval for the mean temperature difference between summer and winter in the region. Mean High Temperatures (degreesF)
City A B C D E F G H I J K L
July 75 71 77 76 89 87 69 87 73 65 77 84
Jan. 34 36 43 34 56 54 42 46 44 44 22 37
The confidence interval is ?
Let and be the means , and be the standard deviation and and be the sizes of the samples. Let us first compute the means and standard deviations of the samples.
Now pooled standard deviation is given by,
t value at degrees of freedom is given by,
Therefore, the 95% confidence interval of difference in means is given by,
That is,
Therefore, the required answer is