Silicone implant augmentation rhinoplasty is used to correct congenital nose deformities. The success of the procedure depends on various biomechanical properties of the human nasal periosteum and fascia. An article reported that for a sample of 20 (newly deceased) adults, the mean failure strain (%) was 24.0, and the standard deviation was 3.4. (a) Assuming a normal distribution for failure strain, estimate true average strain in a way that conveys information about precision and reliability. (Use a 95% confidence interval. Round your answers to two decimal places.) | %) %, (b) Predict the strain for a single adult in a way that conveys information about precision and reliability. (Use a 95% prediction interval. Round your answers to two decimal places.) | %) %, How does the prediction compare to the estimate calculated in part (a)? O The prediction interval is the same as the confidence interval in part (a). O The prediction interval is much narrower than the confidence
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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