A health professional wants to test the null hypothesis that the mean length of hospital stay for

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A health professional wants to test the null hypothesis that the mean length of hospital stay for a certain surgical procedure is 4 days. She obtains records for all the patients who have undergone the procedure at a certain hospital during a given year, and finds that the mean length of stay is 4.7 days with a standard deviation of 1.1 days. Should these data be used to perform a hypothesis test? Explain why or why not.

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9781259969454

3rd Edition

Authors: William Navidi, Barry Monk

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