A doctor is studying a new disease and it's possible that the five year survival rate for some patients can be improved if the standard treatment is lengthened from one year to one and a half years. 50 patients were treated for 1.5 years and 15 did not survive for five years as predicted. If p is the survival rate for individuals treated for the disease over 1.5 years. Can you construct a 99% confidence interval for p and find the right sample size that the doctor would need so the margin of error for the 99% CI for p is less than 0.1?

A doctor is studying a new disease and it's possible that the five year survival rate for some patients can be improved if the standard treatment is lengthened from one year to one and a half years. 50 patients were treated for 1.5 years and 15 did not survive for five years as predicted. If p is the survival rate for individuals treated for the disease over 1.5 years. Can you construct a 99% confidence interval for p and find the right sample size that the doctor would need so the margin of error for the 99% CI for p is less than 0.1?

College Algebra (MindTap Course List)

12th Edition

ISBN:9781305652231

Author:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Publisher:R. David Gustafson, Jeff Hughes

Chapter8: Sequences, Series, And Probability

Section8.7: Probability

Problem 58E: What is meant by the sample space of an experiment?

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