The CEO of a medical supply company is committed to expanding the proportion of highly qualified women
Question:
The CEO of a medical supply company is committed to expanding the proportion of highly qualified women in the organization’s staff of salespersons. He claims that the proportion of women in similar sales positions across the country in 1998 is less than 50%. Hoping to find support for his claim, he directs his assistant to collect a random sample of salespersons employed by his company, which is thought to be representative of sales staffs of competing organizations in the industry. These data are listed in the file P10_13.XLS. Test this manager’s claim using the given sample data and report a p-value. Do you find statistical support for his hypothesis that the proportion of women in similar sales positions across the country is less than 50%?
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Managerial Statistics
ISBN: 9780534389314
1st Edition
Authors: S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe