Seat Belts A study of seat belt use involved children who were hospitalized after motor vehicle crashes.

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Seat Belts A study of seat belt use involved children who were hospitalized after motor vehicle crashes. For a group of 123 children who were wearing seat belts, the number of days in intensive care units (ICU) has a mean of 0.83 and a standard deviation of 1.77. For a group of 290 children who were not wearing seat belts, the number of days spent in ICUs has a mean of 1.39 and a standard deviation of 3.06 (based on data from “Morbidity Among Pediatric Motor Vehicle Crash Victims: The Effectiveness of Seat Belts,” by Osberg and Di Scala, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 82, No. 3).

a. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that children wearing seat belts have a lower mean length of time in an ICU than the mean for children not wearing seat belts.

b. Construct a confidence interval appropriate for the hypothesis test in part (a).

c. What important conclusion do the results suggest?

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Biostatistics For The Biological And Health Sciences

ISBN: 9780134039015

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Authors: Marc Triola, Mario Triola, Jason Roy

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