An article reported the results of a peer tutoring program to help children learn to read. In the experiment, Form 2 of the Gates-MacGintie Reading Test was administered to both an experimental group and a control group after 6 weeks of instruction, during which the experimental group received peer tutoring and the control group did not. For the experimental group n1 = 30 children, the mean score on the vocabulary portion of the test was x1 = 368.4, with sample standard deviation s1 = 39.3. The average score on the vocabulary portion of the test for the n2 = 30 subjects in the control group was x2 = 348.8 with sample standard deviation s2 = 56.2. (b) Find a 98% confidence interval for ?1 − ?2.
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Mean, Median, Mode
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A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
An article reported the results of a peer tutoring program to help children learn to read. In the experiment, Form 2 of the Gates-MacGintie Reading Test was administered to both an experimental group and a control group after 6 weeks of instruction, during which the experimental group received peer tutoring and the control group did not. For the experimental group n1 = 30 children, the
(b) Find a 98% confidence interval for ?1 − ?2.(Round your answers to two decimal places.)
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