Data on the numbers of hospital admissions resulting from motor vehicle crashes are given below for Fridays on the 6th of a month and Fridays on the following 13th of the same month. Assume that the paired sample data is a simple random sample and that the differences have a distribution that is approximately normal. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the mean of the population of differences between hospital admissions. Use the confidence interval to test the claim that when the 13th day of a month falls on a Friday, the numbers of hospital admissions from motor vehicle crashes are not affected.
Friday the 6th |
2 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
9 |
|
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Friday the 13th |
14 |
13 |
15 |
13 |
15 |
is the mean value of the differences d for the population of all pairs of data, where each individual difference d is defined as the number of hospital admissions on Friday the 6th minus the number of hospital admissions on Friday the 13th. Find the 95% confidence interval.
a 95% confidence interval is =(-12.80, -3.60)
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