In a random sample of 1000 SARS patients treated with an experimental drug, 947 of them recovered within two weeks. Find a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of all patients who will recover within two weeks if treated with the same drug.
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- The number of patients who recovered is 947, and the total number of patients in the sample is 1000. - Therefore, the sample proportion (p̂) is calculated as: \[ p̂ = \frac{947}{1000} = 0.947 \] Show more…
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