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balandron [24]
2 years ago
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Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School conducted a study in 2003 to look at the connection between watching actors smoking in

movies and smoking initiation among adolescents. In the study, 6,522 U.S. adolescents ages 10-14 who had never tried smoking were randomly selected. Of those who subsequently tried smoking for the first time, 38% did so because of exposure to smoking in the movies. Estimate the proportion of all U.S. adolescents ages 10-14 who started smoking because of seeing actors smoke in movies by constructing a 95% confidence interval.
Mathematics
1 answer:
docker41 [41]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The 95% confidence interval for the proportion of adolescents who tried smoking for the first time because of exposure to smoking in the movies is (0.37, 0.40).

Step-by-step explanation:

A confidence interval is an interval estimate of the population parameter. The confidence interval has a certain probability of consisting the true value of the parameter.

The (1 - <em>α</em>) % confidence interval for the population proportion (<em>p</em>) is given by:

CI=\hat p\pm z_{\alpha/2}\times \sqrt{\frac{\hat p(1-\hat p)}{n}}

The information provided is:

n = 6522\\\hat p=0.38\\z_{\alpha/2}=z_{0.05/2}=z_{0.025}=1.96

*Use a <em>z</em>-table for the critical value.

Construct the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of adolescents who tried smoking for the first time because of exposure to smoking in the movies as follows:

CI=\hat p\pm z_{\alpha/2}\times \sqrt{\frac{\hat p(1-\hat p)}{n}}\\=0.38\pm 1.96\times \sqrt{\frac{0.38(1-0.38)}{6522}}\\=0.38\pm 0.0118\\=(0.3682, 0.3918)\\\approx (0.37, 0.40)

Thus, the 95% confidence interval for the proportion of adolescents who tried smoking for the first time because of exposure to smoking in the movies is (0.37, 0.40).

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