10.28 Kidnapping in southern and eastern European countries The following data on kidnapping offences in countries of east and south Europe in 2014 were obtained from https://data.unodc.org.

(Crime and Criminal Justice –> Crime –> Kidnapping –>

Filter by Region and Sub Region as appropriate)

Eastern Europe: 31, 95, 12, 3, 292, 88, 369, 10 Southern Europe: 2, 1, 3, 1, 58, 297, 22, 376, 11, 5, 99, 8 Using statistical software,

a. Construct and interpret a plot comparing responses by region.

b. Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval comparing population means for kidnapping counts in Eastern and Southern Europe in 2014.

c. Show all five steps of a significance test comparing the population means.

d. State and check the assumptions for part b and c.