Answered: The correct conclusion is that we…

Name: A health professional obtains records for 33 patients who have undergo
Uploaded: 2024-03-20T07:07:12.000Z
Channel: Bartleby
Description: A health professional obtains records for 33 patients who have undergone a certain surgical procedure and finds the average length of stay is 3.23 days with a standard deviation of 1.58 days. Using α=0.10 is there evidence to suggest the actual avera

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

See similar textbooks

Related questions

Topic Video

Question

A health professional obtains records for 33 patients who have undergone a certain surgical procedure and finds the average length of stay is 3.23 days with a standard deviation of 1.58 days. Using α=0.10 is there evidence to suggest the actual average length of stay for this surgical procedure is 3 days?

The correct conclusion is that we Select an answer: (can, maybe can, cannot) conclude that the average length of stay of Select an answer: (all, sampled, randomly selected) surgeries of this type Select an answer: (is less than, is is different from, is more than) Select an answer: (3.23, 0.85, 3) days.

What level of concern do you have for the validity of your results?

Moderate - the original data is not normally distributed which is an assumptions violation
Low - our sample size is near 30, so while that's likely sufficient for X¯ to be approximately normally distributed, seeing that the original data isn't extremely skewed would make us feel more comfortable
Extreme - we should not use any part of what we've done to make a conclusion
None - our sample size is larger than 30 so there should be no problem with the conclusion

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.

Expert Solution

Step by step

Solved in 2 steps with 3 images

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Knowledge Booster

$Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Means$

Learn more about

Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, statistics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.

Similar questions