Solved on Nov 16, 2023
Test if more than 91% of acid reflux patients are healed in 8 weeks using drug. . Find test statistic and P-value.
STEP 1
Assumptions1. The manufacturer claims that more than91% of patients are healed within8 weeks.
. In clinical trials,217 out of235 patients were healed after8 weeks.
3. We are testing the manufacturer's claim at the level of significance.
4. We are asked to find the test statistic, , and the-value.
STEP 2
First, we need to calculate the sample proportion (), which is the proportion of patients healed in the clinical trials. This is calculated by dividing the number of successful outcomes (patients healed) by the total number of trials (total patients).
STEP 3
Now, plug in the given values for the number of successful outcomes and total number of trials to calculate the sample proportion.
STEP 4
Calculate the sample proportion.
STEP 5
Next, we need to calculate the population proportion (), which is the proportion claimed by the manufacturer.
STEP 6
Now, we calculate the standard error () using the formulawhere is the total number of trials.
STEP 7
Plug in the values for and to calculate the standard error.
STEP 8
Calculate the standard error.
STEP 9
Now, we calculate the test statistic using the formula
STEP 10
Plug in the values for , , and to calculate the test statistic.
STEP 11
Calculate the test statistic.
STEP 12
Now, we calculate the-value. The-value is the probability that we would observe a result as extreme as the test statistic, assuming the null hypothesis is true. Since the manufacturer's claim is that more than91% of patients are healed, this is a one-tailed test. We use the standard normal distribution (Z-distribution) to find the-value.
STEP 13
Plug in the value for to calculate the-value.
STEP 14
Calculate the-value.
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