Patients Exercise 2.135 on page 100 discusses a study showing the recurrence time to infection at the
Question:
(a) Find a 99% confidence interval for the mean time to infection for these patients. Give the best estimate, the margin of error, and give and interpret the confidence interval.
(b) Is it reasonable to find a patient with a time to infection of 24 days? How about 152 days?
(c) Is it reasonable to find the mean time to infection in the population is 24 days? How about 152 days?
Exercise 2.135 on page 100
Table 2.28 gives data showing the time to infection, at the point of insertion of the catheter, for kidney patients using portable dialysis equipment. There are 38 patients, and the data give the first observation for each patient. The five number summary for these data is (2, 15, 46, 149, 536).
Table 2.28
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