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Confidence Intervals
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Directions: Read the following article and answer each question completely
but concisely. Be sure to save a copy of your work, and see the syllabus for
submission details. (The spacing between the questions is not necessarily an
indication of the expected response length.)
Journal
March 26, 2010
Resting Heart Rates of American Adults
A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute,
reports Dr. Edward Laskowski of the Mayo Clinic. Lower resting heart rates are
generally associated with higher cardiovascular fitness. With the marked
increase in obesity in America, there is rising concern that the average
resting heart rate of American adults is trending towards the higher end of
the accepted range. A recent study conducted by the Statistical Health
Association of America validates this concern. Results were based on a
sample of 1587 American adults (ages 18 and older). The mean resting heart
rate from this sample was calculated at 87 beats per minute (bpm). The study
concludes that, with 95% confidence, the true mean resting heart rate of
American adults is in the interval (80, 94).
1. (1 point) What is the population that the confidence interval in the
article is making an inference about? Be specific.
The parameter of interest is the true average resting heart rate of all
American adults.
The confidence interval stated in the terms of the article is (80, 94). I
believe that this confidence interval is given in interval form.
The confidence level given with this interval is 95%. This means that the
mean resting heart rate for all adults is somewhere between 80 and 94
beats per minute with 95% confidence. Another way to put it is 95% of
all possible confidence intervals computed using the same procedure as
used to obtain 80 and 94 will contain the value of .
5. (2 points) How was the sample collected? Does this allow us to infer
things about the population? If the article does not state how it was
collected, how SHOULD it have been collected?
This article does not specifically state how data was collected, but it
should be collected as a simple random sample.