Answered: Find the confidence interval estimate.…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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A clinical trial was conducted to test the effectiveness of a drug used for treating insomnia in older subjects. After treatment with the drug,

subjects had a mean wake time of

94.2

min and a standard deviation of

41.9

min. Assume that the

sample values appear to be from a normally distributed population and construct a

98%

confidence interval estimate of the standard deviation of the wake times for a population with the drug treatments. Does the result indicate whether the treatment is effective?

Find the confidence interval estimate.

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(Round to two decimal places as needed.)

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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