5.23 Seat belt use and auto accidents Based on records of automobile accidents in a recent year,...
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5.23 Seat belt use and auto accidents Based on records of automobile accidents in a recent year, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in Florida reported the counts who survived (S) and died (D), according to whether they wore a seat belt 1Y = yes, N = no2. The data are presented in the contingency table shown.
a. What is the sample space of possible outcomes for a randomly selected individual involved in an auto accident? Use a tree diagram to illustrate the possible outcomes. (Hint: One possible outcome is YS.)
b. Using these data, estimate (i) P(D), (ii) P(N).
c. Estimate the probability that an individual did not wear a seat belt and died.
d. Based on part
a, what would the answer to part c have been if the events N and D were independent? So, are N and D independent, and if not, what does that mean in the context of these data?
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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data
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4th Global Edition
Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg