A healthcare provider monitors the number of CAT scans performed each month in each of its...

A healthcare provider monitors the number of CAT scans performed each month in each of
its clinics. The most recent year of data for a particular clinics follows (the reported variable is the
number of CAT scans each month expressed as the number of CAT scans per thousand members of the
health plan):

2.31, 2.09, 2.36, 1.95, 1.98, 2.25, 2.16, 2.07, 1.88, 1.94, 1.97, 2.02.

Find a two-sided 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation.

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Solution-

Standard deviation of Number of CAT scan

= 0.157

95% confidence interval for the population standard deviation is

0.1108 < σ <0.2655

(0.1108, 0.2655)

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