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Confidence Intervals. In Exercise, construct

Chapter 7, Problem 23BSC

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QUESTION:

Confidence Intervals. In Exercises 9–24, construct the confidence interval.

Age Discrimination? The accompanying stemplots depict ages of applicants who were unsuccessful in winning promotion and ages of applicants who were successful in winning promotion (based on data from “Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence in Allegations of Age Discrimination” by Barry and Boland, American Statistician, Vol. 58, No. 2). Assume that the samples are simple random samples and use a 95% confidence level to construct the two confidence interval estimates of the two population means. Compare the results. What do you conclude?

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QUESTION:

Confidence Intervals. In Exercises 9–24, construct the confidence interval.

Age Discrimination? The accompanying stemplots depict ages of applicants who were unsuccessful in winning promotion and ages of applicants who were successful in winning promotion (based on data from “Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence in Allegations of Age Discrimination” by Barry and Boland, American Statistician, Vol. 58, No. 2). Assume that the samples are simple random samples and use a 95% confidence level to construct the two confidence interval estimates of the two population means. Compare the results. What do you conclude?

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Solution 23BSC

The given stem plots are the ages of applicants who were unsuccessful in winning promotion and the age of applicants who were successful in winning promotion.

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Construct 95% confidence interval estimate of the population mean for both the groups.

For unsuccessful age group:

Use MINITAB to get the required result.

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1. Type the data into the MINITAB work sheet.

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