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Reliance on solid biomass fuel for cooking and heating exposes many children from developing countries to high levels of indoor air pollution. The article “Domestic Fuels, Indoor Air Pollution, and Children’s Health” (Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, 2008: 209–217) presented information on various pulmonary characteristics in samples of children whose households in India used either biomass fuel or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). For the 755 children in biomass households, the sample
For the 750 children whose households used liquefied petroleum gas, the sample mean PEF was 4.25 and the sample standard deviation was 1.75.
a. Calculate a confidence interval at the 95% confidence level for the population mean PEF for children in biomass households and then do likewise for children in LPG households. What is the simultaneous confidence level for the two intervals?
b. Carry out a test of hypotheses at significance level .01 to decide whether true average PEF is lower for children in biomass households than it is for children in LPG households (the cited article included a P-value for this test).
c. FEV1, the forced expiratory volume in 1 second, is another measure of pulmonary
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