1. A study was conducted by a group of neurosurgeons. They compared a dynamic system (Z-plate) and a static system (ALPS plate) in terms of the number of acute postop- erative days in the hospital spent by the patients. The descriptive statistics for these data are as follows: for 14 patients with dynamic system, the sample mean number of acute postoperative days was 7.36 with standard deviation of 1.22; for 6 patients with static system the sample mean number of acute postoperative days was 10.5 with sample standard deviation of 4.59. Assume that the numbers of acute postoperative days in both populations are normally distributed. We wish to estimate μ1 − μ2 with a 99 percent confidence interval. a. Unknown population variances can be assumed equal i. True ii. False b. Degrees of Freedom i. 18 ii. 20 iii. 2.553 iv. 2.878 c. What is the t−value to be used in calculation of margin of error? i. 3.365 ii. 4.032 iii. 2.553 iv. 2.878 d. Margin of Error i. 4.86 ii. 5.47 iii. 6.40 iv. 7.67 e. Confidence Interval i. (−10.81,4.53) ii. (−9.54,3.26) iii. (−8.00,1.72) iv. (−8.61,2.33) f. Based on your interval in part (e), we can state with 99 percent confidence that the average numbers of acute postoperative days in two populations i. Are significantly different ii. Are not significantly different
1. A study was conducted by a group of neurosurgeons. They compared a dynamic system (Z-plate) and a static system (ALPS plate) in terms of the number of acute postop- erative days in the hospital spent by the patients. The
a. Unknown population variances can be assumed equal
i. True
ii. False
b. Degrees of Freedom
i. 18
ii. 20
iii. 2.553
iv. 2.878
c. What is the t−value to be used in calculation of margin of error?
i. 3.365
ii. 4.032
iii. 2.553
iv. 2.878
d. Margin of Error
i. 4.86
ii. 5.47
iii. 6.40
iv. 7.67
e. Confidence Interval
i. (−10.81,4.53)
ii. (−9.54,3.26)
iii. (−8.00,1.72)
iv. (−8.61,2.33)
f. Based on your interval in part (e), we can state with 99 percent confidence that the average numbers of acute postoperative days in two populations
i. Are significantly different
ii. Are not significantly different
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