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Can Prople Delay Death?
A new study indicates that elderly people are able to postpone death for a short time to reach an important occasion. The researchers' studied deaths from natural causes among 1200 eklerly people of Chinese descent in California during six month before and after the Harbor Moon Festival. Thiriy-three dealis occurred in the week before the Chature feettvat, compared with an estimated 50.82 death expected in that period, in the week following the festival, 70 deaths occurred, compared with an estimated 52. "The numbers are so significant that it would be unilikely to occur by chance," said one of the researchers.
â„¢illips, D. and Smith, D. "Postypnement of Death Until Symbolically Meaningful Occasions", Journaf of the American Medical Association, 1990; 263(14) 1947-1951.
(a) Given the information in the problem, is the x^(2) statistic likely to tee relatively large or relatively small?
Small
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