Confidence Interval Doctor's Surgery

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Catherine Palmer 6 years, 4 months ago

Created this as a copy of Confidence Interval.

Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Confidence Interval	Ready to use	Hayley Moore	01/06/2016 09:47
Confidence Interval Doctor's Surgery	draft	Catherine Palmer	11/11/2018 22:36
Confidence Interval Doctor's Surgery	draft	Catherine Palmer	20/02/2023 11:21
Assessment version Confidence Interval Doctor's Surgery	draft	Catherine Palmer	11/11/2018 22:35
Harry's copy of Confidence Interval Doctor's Surgery	draft	Harry Flynn	15/11/2018 09:55
Sample mean, standard deviation and standard error	draft	Catherine Palmer	20/02/2023 11:19

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The ages of a random sample of patients coming into a doctor's surgery during the school holidays are noted down on each Monday and Friday thoughout August.

{table([['Monday']+mon,['Friday']+fri],[])}

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

num_monday	integer	12
monday_pop_mean	integer	20
monday_pop_range	integer	20
mon	list	List of 12 items
num_friday	integer	16
friday_pop_mean	integer	34
friday_pop_range	integer	20
fri	list	List of 12 items
monday_mean	number	16.3333333333
monday_sd	number	11.4680055596
monday_se	number	3.3105280485
monday_t	number	2.2009851427
monday_low	number	9.0469102844
monday_high	number	23.6197563823
t	number	2.2009851427
friday_mean	number	34.4166666667
friday_se	number	3.1014262359
friday_t	number	2.1314495357
friday_low	number	27.806133156
friday_high	number	41.0272001773
no_overlap	boolean	true

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Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the sample of patients visiting on Mondays.

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The mean of the sample of patients visiting on Mondays is

$\bar{x} = \frac{1}{n}(\sum x_i) = \var{precround(monday_mean,2)} \text{ (to 2 d.p.)}$

The standard deviation is

$s = \sqrt{\frac{1}{n-1}\sum \left(x_i-\bar{x}\right)^2} = \var{precround(monday_sd,2)} \text{ (to 2 d.p.)}$

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The sample mean $\mu_m$ follows a $t$ -distribution with $n-1 = \var{num_monday-1}$ degrees of freedom centred on the population mean, with a standard error of $\frac{s}{\sqrt{n}} = \simplify{{precround(monday_sd,2)}/sqrt({num_monday})} = \var{precround(monday_se,2)}$ .

That means that the 95% confidence interval for the population mean is as follows:

$\begin{array}{lrcl} &\left[ \bar{x} - s \times t_{\var{num_monday-1},0.975} \right. \kern{-0.5em}&,&\kern{-0.5em} \left. \bar{x} + s \times t_{\var{num_monday-1},0.975} \right] \\ = & \left[ \simplify[]{{precround(monday_mean,2)} - {precround(monday_se,2)}*{precround(monday_t,2)}} \right. \kern{-0.5em}&,&\kern{-0.5em} \left. \simplify[]{{precround(monday_mean,2)} + {precround(monday_se,2)}*{precround(monday_t,2)}} \right] \\ = & \left[ \var{precround(monday_low,2)} \right. \kern{-0.5em}&,&\kern{-0.5em} \left. \var{precround(monday_high,2)} \right] \end{array}$

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Generated value: integer

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Generated value: `integer`