A political candidate wants to enter a primary in a district with 100,000 eligible voters, but only if he has a good chance of winning. He hires a survey organization, which takes a simple random sample of 1600 voters. In the sample, 880 favor the candidate, so the percentage is 55%. This is good news but we need to understand the chance error. To find out the standard error
A political candidate wants to enter a primary in a district with 100,000 eligible voters, but only if he has a good chance of winning. He hires a survey organization, which takes a simple random sample of 1600 voters. In the sample, 880 favor the candidate, so the percentage is 55%. This is good news but we need to understand the chance error. To find out the standard error
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Section12.3: Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Bayes' Theorem
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