• 0
Votes
name

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined index: userid

Filename: views/question.php

Line Number: 212

Backtrace:

File: /home/mycocrkc/statisticsanswered.com/application/views/question.php
Line: 212
Function: _error_handler

File: /home/mycocrkc/statisticsanswered.com/application/controllers/Questions.php
Line: 416
Function: view

File: /home/mycocrkc/statisticsanswered.com/index.php
Line: 315
Function: require_once

In 2010. a survey of 400 homes in a region found that 200 had overestimated market values. Suppose you want to estimate "pi", the population proportion of homes in this region with market values that are overestimated. 
a. Find p, the point estimate of t. 
b. Describe the distribution used to find the critical value. 
c. Find a 95% confidence interval for it. 
d. Give a practical interpretation of the confidence interval from part c. 
e. Suppose a researcher claims that a=0.37. Is the claim believable? Explain.
 

The sample statistics are used to estimate the population estimates, in this case the population parameter to be estimated in the population proportion 'pi'. 

The number of successes in the sample are assumed to estiimate the number of successes in the population given the current sample size. 

To estimate the population proportion, the number of successes in the sample (200) is divided by the sample siz (400).  Hence the estimate of the populaton proportion "pi" is 200/400 = 0.5

b. The standard normal distribution is used when constructing the confidence interval for such problems because it is assumed that the occurences of the events follows a normal distribution. The sample is also large enough for the application of the normal distribution to be considered valid. 

c. 

The confidence interval is constracted using the standard normal distribution table, and the formula stated below is applied. 

confidence interval for estimating the population proportion is p_hatch +/- Z_score * SE, the standard error for this confidence interval is 

standard error for proportion =  sqrt(p_hatch * (1- p_hatch)/n) ;- sqrt(0.5 * (1 - 0.5)/400) = 0.025

The confidence interval  = 0.5 +/- 1.96 * 0.025  = (0.5 +/- 0.049), Hence the confidence interval is (0.451, 0.549)

Interpretation of the confidence interval must follow the defined population.  We are 95% confidence that the percentage of the people who overestimated the market value is between (45.1%, 54.9%). 

The claim that the proportion is 0.37 is not valid because this value is not included in this interval. 

 

 

 

  • 0
Reply Report