Question: Activity 2: Calculate a test statistic and confidence interval by hand. In the US, the mean number of siblings for a person born around 2000

Activity 2: Calculate a test statistic and confidence interval by hand.

In the US, the mean number of siblings for a person born around 2000 was 1.03.Is the mean number of siblings different for current students at Penn State?

1.Write the correct null and alternative hypotheses?

2.What is the sample mean?(report to two decimal places)

3.What is the standard error of the mean? (report to three decimal places.)

4.How was the standard error calculated when using the standard deviation?

5.Is it appropriate to use the t-distribution for inference?

6.Calculate the standardized test statistic?

7.For calculating the p-value, what are the correct degrees of freedom of the t-distribution?

8.Find and interpret the p-value?

9.Write the correct conclusion, both generic and in context?

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