Solved: When X1, X2, … , Xnare independent Poisson

Chapter 8, Problem 71E

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Problem 71E

When X1, X2, … , Xnare independent Poisson variables, each with parameter μ, and n is large, the sample mean  has approximately a normal distribution with and  . This implies that

has approximately a standard normal distribution. For testing H0: μ = μ0, we can replace μ by μ0 in the equation for Z to obtain a test statistic. This statistic is actually preferred to the large-sample statistic with denominator  (when the Xi’s are Poisson) because it is tailored explicitly to the Poisson assumption. If the number of requests for consulting received by a certain statistician during a 5-day work week has a Poisson distribution and the total number of consulting requests during a 36-week period is 160, does this suggest that the true average number of weekly requests exceeds 4.0? Test using α = .02.

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