INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & DATA ANALYS
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Chapter 9.3, Problem 43E
Students in a representative sample of 65 first-year students selected from a large university in England participated in a study of academic procrastination (“Study Goals and Procrastination Tendencies a Different Stages of the Undergraduate Degree,” Studies in Higher Education [2016]: 2028-2043). Each student in the sample completed the Tuckman Procrastination Scale, which measures procrastination tendencies. Scores on this scale can
- a. Construct a 95% confidence
interval estimate of μ, the mean procrastination scale for first-year students at this college. - b. Based on your interval, is 40 a plausible value for the population mean score? What does this imply about the population of first-year students?
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INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS & DATA ANALYS
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