8.40 What's Normal? What is normal, when it comes to people's body temperatures? A random sample of...
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8.40 What's Normal? What is normal, when it comes to people's body temperatures? A random sample of 130 human body temperatures, provided by Allen Shoemaker in the Journal of Statistical Edu- cation, had a mean of 36.81 Celsius and a standard deviation of 0.73.
a. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the average body temperature of healthy people.
b. Does the confidence interval constructed in part a contain the value 37 C, the usual average tempera- ture cited by physicians and others? If not, what conclusions can you draw?
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Introduction To Probability And Statistics
ISBN: 9780176509804
3rd Edition
Authors: William Mendenhall
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