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Chapter 4.3, Problem 28BSC
Survey Refusals. In Exercises 27–32, refer to the following table summarizing results from a study of people who refused to answer survey questions (based on data from “I Hear You Knocking but You Can’t Come In,” by Fitzgerald and Fuller, Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 11, No. 1). In each case, assume that one of the subjects is randomly selected.
28. Survey Refusals A pharmaceutical company is interested in opinions of the elderly, because they are either receiving Medicare or will receive it soon. What is the
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