Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11.3, Problem 11.35ACB
Do nice guys really finish last in business? Refer to the Nature (March 20, 2008) study of whether "nice guys finish last" in business, Exercise 11.18 (p. 629). Recall that college students repeatedly played a version of the game “prisoner’s dilemma," where competitors choose cooperation, defection, or costly punishment. At the conclusion of the games, the researchers recorded the average payoff and the number of times punishment was used for each player. Based on a
a. Assuming a sample size of n = 28, compute the estimated standard deviation of the error distribution, s.
b. Give a practical interpretation of s.
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