5.4 Large-Sample Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
The number of public-opinion polls has grown at an astounding rate in recent years. Almost daily, the news media report the results of some poll. Pollsters regularly determine the percentage of people in favor of the president’s welfare-reform program, the fraction of voters in favor of a certain candidate, the fraction of customers who favor a particular brand of wine, and the proportion of people who smoke cigarettes. In each case, we are interested in estimating the percentage (or proportion) of some group with a certain characteristic. In this section, we consider methods for making inferences about population proportions when the sample is large.
Example 5.6 Estimating a ...
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