Janice Johnson, director of the Montana Bureau of Prisons, is concerned about the number of violent incidents
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Janice Johnson, director of the Montana Bureau of Prisons, is concerned about the number of violent incidents among prisoners. Last year, the system averaged 1.5 violent incidents per day. In an attempt to lower this number, Director Johnson implemented an aggressive new training protocol to help prison staff better understand the conditions leading to the occurrence of such incidents. The director’s assistant takes a random sample of 100 daily incident reports from the state’s prisons to get a quick read of the situation. She finds an average incident rate of 1.41 per day with a standard deviation of .12. What should the assistant tell the director?
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Applied Statistics For Public And Nonprofit Administration
ISBN: 9781111342807
8th Edition
Authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Jeffrey L. Brudney, John Bohte