In a psychological experiment, individuals are permitted to react to a stimulus in one of two ways,

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In a psychological experiment, individuals are permitted to react to a stimulus in one of two ways, say, A or B. The experimenter wishes to estimate the proportion p of persons exhibiting reaction A. How many persons should be included in the experiment to be 90% confident that the error of estimation is within .03 if the experimenter:
(a) Knows that p is about .3?
(b) Has no idea about the value of p?
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Statistics Principles And Methods

ISBN: 9780470904114

7th Edition

Authors: Richard A. Johnson, Gouri K. Bhattacharyya

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