Fifteen resistors were randomly selected from the output of a process supposedly producing 10- ohm resistors. The 15 resistors actually showed a sample mean of 9.8 ohms and a sample and a standard deviation of 0.5 ohm. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true resistance of the resistors produced by this process. Assume that the resistance measurements are approximately normally distributed.

Fifteen resistors were randomly selected from the output of a process supposedly producing 10- ohm resistors. The 15 resistors actually showed a sample mean of 9.8 ohms and a sample and a standard deviation of 0.5 ohm. Find a 95% confidence interval for the true resistance of the resistors produced by this process. Assume that the resistance measurements are approximately normally distributed.

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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Author:Amos Gilat

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