Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 8 patients. The period of effectiveness of the tranquilizer for each patient (in hours) is as follows: 2.2 2.2 2.5 2.1 3 3 3 2.8 What is a point estimate for the population mean length of time. (Round answer to 4 decimal places)  Which distribution should you use for this problem? t-distribution normal distribution What must be true in order to construct a confidence interval in this situation? The population must be approximately normal The population mean must be known The sample size must be greater than 30 The population standard deviation must be known Construct a 80% confidence interval for the population mean length of time. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) Round upper and lower bounds to two decimal places  What does it mean to be "80% confident" in this problem? 80% of all simple random samples of size 8 from this population will result in confidence intervals that contain the population mean The confidence interval contains 80% of all samples There is a 80% chance that the confidence interval contains the population mean

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Suppose you are a researcher in a hospital. You are experimenting with a new tranquilizer. You collect data from a random sample of 8 patients. The period of effectiveness of the tranquilizer for each patient (in hours) is as follows:

2.2
2.2
2.5
2.1
3
3
3
2.8

What is a point estimate for the population mean length of time. (Round answer to 4 decimal places) 

Which distribution should you use for this problem?

  • t-distribution
  • normal distribution



What must be true in order to construct a confidence interval in this situation?

  • The population must be approximately normal
  • The population mean must be known
  • The sample size must be greater than 30
  • The population standard deviation must be known

Construct a 80% confidence interval for the population mean length of time. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) Round upper and lower bounds to two decimal places 

What does it mean to be "80% confident" in this problem?

  • 80% of all simple random samples of size 8 from this population will result in confidence intervals that contain the population mean
  • The confidence interval contains 80% of all samples
  • There is a 80% chance that the confidence interval contains the population mean



Suppose that the company releases a statement that the mean time for all patients is 2 hours.

Is this possible?

  • No
  • Yes

Is it likely?

  • No
  • Yes
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