Casio ALGEBRA FX2.0 Advanced Statistics Examples 2 User Manual

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Example

Suppose 800 students were selected at random from a student body
of 20,000 and given shots to prevent a certain type of flu. All 800
students were exposed to the flu and 600 of them did not get the flu.
Let p present the probability that the shot will be successful for any
single student selected at random from the entire population of
20,000. Let q be the probability that the shot is not successful.

a) What are the point estimates for p and q?
b) Find a 99% confidence interval for p.

Procedure

1

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STAT2

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(INTR)

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(Z)

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(1-Prop)

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gaa

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(None)

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(CALC)

Result Screen

a) The point of estimates for p = 0.75, and the point of

estimates for q = 1-p = 0.25.

b) Thus, the 99% confidence interval for p

becomes 0.71<p<0.79 .

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