Over the past several months, an adult patient has been treated for tetany (severe muscle spasms). This

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Over the past several months, an adult patient has been treated for tetany (severe muscle spasms). This condition is associated with an average total calcium level below 6 mg/dL. Recently, the patient€™s total calcium tests gave the following readings (in mg/dL):
Over the past several months, an adult patient has been

(a) Use a calculator to verify that = 9.95 and s ‰ˆ 1.02.
(b) Find a 99.9% confidence interval for the population mean of total calcium in this patient€™s blood.
(c) Based on your results in part (b), does it seem that this patient still has a calcium deficiency? Explain.

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Understanding Basic Statistics

ISBN: 9781111827021

6th Edition

Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase

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