Of 560 broiler chickens purchased from various kinds of food stores in different regions of a country and tested for types of bacteria that cause food-borne illnesses, 65% were infected with a particular bacterium.
a) Construct a 90% confidence interval.
b) Explain what your confidence interval says about chicken sold in the country.
c) A government spokesperson claimed that the sample size was too small, relative to the billions of chickens slaughtered each year, to generalize. Is this criticism valid?
To compute critical values one can apply the inverse of the standard
normal distribution (for example, =NORM.S.INV(1-0.1/2) in Microsoft
Excel). The 90% confidence interval will have the same critical values
as a one-sample two-tailed z-test with alpha=0.1.
Tayor
13.01.19, 21:49
How did you get the 1.645 beacuse I tried InvT and I'm not quite sure
what values to input?
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To compute critical values one can apply the inverse of the standard normal distribution (for example, =NORM.S.INV(1-0.1/2) in Microsoft Excel). The 90% confidence interval will have the same critical values as a one-sample two-tailed z-test with alpha=0.1.
How did you get the 1.645 beacuse I tried InvT and I'm not quite sure what values to input?
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