Prison Sentences. Researcher Sudhinta Sinha discussed how people adjust to prison life in the article Adjustment and

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Prison Sentences. Researcher Sudhinta Sinha discussed how people adjust to prison life in the article “Adjustment and mental health problem in prisoners” (Industrial Psychiatry Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 101–104). A sample of 37 sentenced adult male prisoners had an average age of 36.7 years. Assume that, for the sentenced adult male prisoners, the population standard deviation of age is 8.0 years.

a. Find and interpret a 90% confidence interval for the mean age, μ, of all sentenced adult male prisoners.

b. Under what conditions can you freely apply the procedure that you used in part (a)?

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Introductory Statistics

ISBN: 9781292099729

10th Global Edition

Authors: Neil A. Weiss

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