A medical researcher wants to investigate the amount of time it takes for patients' headache pain to be relieved after taking a new prescription painkiller. She plans to use statistical methods to estimate the mean of the population of relief times. She believes that the population is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 19 minutes. How large a sample should she take to estimate the mean time to within 4 minutes with 92% confidence?
Sample Size =
Solution
standard deviation =s = =19
Margin of error = E = 4
At 92% confidence level the z is ,
= 1 - 92% = 1 - 0.92 = 0.08
/ 2 = 0.08 / 2 = 0.04
Z/2 = Z0.04 = 1.75
sample size = n = [Z/2* / E] 2
n = ( 1.75* 19/ 4)2
n =69.09
Sample size = n =69
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