Calculation practice: Standard error of a proportion. Canner et al. (2014) surveyed U.S. emergency room data to

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Calculation practice: Standard error of a proportion. Canner et al. (2014) surveyed U.S. emergency room data to better understand who is most likely to be injured by fireworks. Of the 25,675 admissions to emergency rooms for fireworks-related injuries, 19,613 were males and 6062 were females.

a. Identify the total sample size, n.n.

b. Calculate the observed proportion of all firework injuries that were experienced by males. This is the best estimate of the population proportion, P.P.

c. Calculate the standard error of p^ , using SEp^=√p^(1−p^)/n.

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The Analysis Of Biological Data

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Authors: Michael C. Whitlock, Dolph Schluter

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