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SUMMARY OF FORMULAS FOR CHAPTER 6 203<br />

6.10.7. Measurements of gastric secretion of hydrochloric acid (milliequivalents per hour) in 16 normal<br />

subjects and 10 subjects with duodenal ulcer yielded the following results:<br />

Normal subjects: 6.3, 2.0, 2.3, 0.5, 1.9, 3.2, 4.1, 4.0, 6.2, 6.1, 3.5, 1.3, 1.7, 4.5, 6.3, 6.2<br />

Ulcer subjects: 13.7, 20.6, 15.9, 28.4, 29.4, 18.4, 21.1, 3.0, 26.2, 13.0<br />

Construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the ratio of the two population variances. What<br />

assumptions must be met for this procedure to be valid?<br />

6.11 SUMMARY<br />

This chapter is concerned with one of the major areas of statistical inference—estimation.<br />

Both point estimation and interval estimation are covered. The concepts and methods<br />

involved in the construction of confidence intervals are illustrated for the following<br />

parameters: means, the difference between two means, proportions, the difference between<br />

two proportions, variances, and the ratio of two variances. In addition, we learned in this<br />

chapter how to determine the sample size needed to estimate a population mean and a<br />

population proportion at specified levels of precision.<br />

We learned, also, in this chapter that interval estimates of population parameters are<br />

more desirable than point estimates because statements of confidence can be attached to<br />

interval estimates.<br />

SUMMARY OF FORMULAS FOR CHAPTER 6<br />

Formula<br />

Number Name Formula<br />

6.2.1 Expression of an interval<br />

estimate<br />

estimator ðreliability coefficientÞ<br />

ðstandard error of the estimatorÞ<br />

6.2.2 Interval estimate for m<br />

when s is known<br />

6.3.1 t-transformation<br />

6.3.2 Interval estimate for m<br />

when s is unknown<br />

6.4.1 Interval estimate for the<br />

difference between two<br />

population means when<br />

s 1 and s 2 are known<br />

6.4.2 Pooled variance estimate<br />

6.4.3 Standard error of estimate<br />

x z ð1<br />

a=2Þ<br />

s x<br />

t ¼ x p<br />

m<br />

s= ffiffi n<br />

x t ð1<br />

a=2<br />

Þ ¼ p<br />

s ffiffi<br />

n<br />

sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi<br />

s 2 1<br />

ðx 1 x 2 Þz ð1 a=2Þ<br />

þ s2 2<br />

n 1<br />

n 2<br />

s 2 p ¼ ð n 1 1Þs 2 1 þ ð n 2 1Þs 2 2<br />

n 1 þ n 2 2<br />

sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi<br />

s 2 p<br />

sð<br />

x1 x 2 Þ ¼ þ s2 p<br />

n 1 n 2<br />

(Continued )

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