Preliminary data analyses indicate that you can reasonably apply the z-interval procedure (Procedure 8.1 on page 339) in Exercises 8.69–8.74.
8.73 Political Prisoners. A. Elders et al. studied various characteristics of political prisoners from the former East Germany and presented their findings in the paper “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Following Political Imprisonment: The Role of Mental Defeat, Alienation, and Perceived Permanent Change” (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 109. pp. 45–55). According to the article, the
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