A graduate student in clinical psychology is investigating s…
A graduate student in clinical psychology is investigating self-reported state anxiety among first-year doctoral students during their initial qualifying exam. She randomly samples 28 students and administers the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The sample yields a mean score of 24.3 with a standard deviation of 5.7. Assume STAI scores are approximately normally distributed in the population. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean STAI score during the qualifying exam. (1.5 pts) Interpret this confidence interval in the context of the problem. (1.5 pt) The student wants to design a follow-up study with a 95% confidence interval whose margin of error is no greater than 1.5 points. Using s = 5.7 as a planning value for
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A health-psychology researcher hypothesizes that average nightly sleep duration (in hours) is positively associated with cognitive task performance the following morning. He records sleep duration the night before a working-memory task for a random sample of 10 undergraduates and records each student’s score (0 – 100) on the task. Student Sleep (hr) Score 1 4 60 2 5 78 3 6 72 4 7 88 5 8 85 6 5 70 7 6 82 8 7 78 9 8 90 10 5 65 Test whether sleep duration and cognitive task are positively correlated. (5 pts) Compute and interpret the coefficient of determination R2. (2 pts)
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Cecily is working at a high-end jewelry store when a group of 30 teenagers enter the store. They break the glass in the display cases, grab jewelry, and run back out. Cecily calls the police, but the group is long gone before the police arrive. What type of crime is this?
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