Understanding Basic Statistics
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Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 8.3, Problem 23P
Medical: Blood Type A random sample of medical files is used to estimate the proportion p of all people who have blood type B.
(a) If you have no preliminary estimate for p, how many medical files should you include in a random sample in order to be
(b) Answer part (a) if you use the preliminary estimate that about 8 out of 90 people have blood type B (Reference: Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests by F. Fischbach).
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