Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6.7, Problem 6.98ACB
Corporate sustainability of CPA firms. Refer to the Business and Society (March 2011) study on the sustainability behaviors of CPA corporations. Exercise 6.12 (p. 315). Recall that the level of support for corporate sustainability (measured on a quantitative scale
- a. Locate the 90% confidence interval for σ2 on the printout. Interpret the result.
- b. Use the sample variance on the printout to calculate the 90% confidence interval for σ2 Does your result agree with the interval shown on the printout?
- c. Locate the 90% confidence internal for σ on the printout.
- d. Use the result, part a to calculate the 90% confidence interval for σ. Does your result agree with the interval shown on the printout?
- e. Give a practical interpretation of the 90% confidence interval for σ.
- f. What assumption about the distribution of level of support is required for the inference, part e, to be valid? Is this assumption reasonably satisfied?
(Use your answer to Exercise 4,125. p. 246.)
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