Introduction to Probability and Statistics
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Author: Mendenhall, William
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.69SE
Psychosomatic Problems A psychiatrist believesthat 80% of all people who visit doctors have problemsof a psychosomatic nature. She decides to select 25patients at random to test her theory.
- Assuming that the psychiatrist’s theory is true, whatis the
expected value of x. the number of the 25patients who have psychosomatic problems? - What is the variance of x, assuming that the theoryis true? Find
- (Use tables and assume that thetheory is true.)
- Based on the
probability in part e, if only 14 of the25 sampled had psychosomatic problems. What conclusions would you make about the psychiatrist’s theory? Explain.
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