In the LA Time’s October 2010 poll of likely California voters, 480 of 922 surveyed were likely to vote for Jerry Brown in the governor's race. In September, in a similar poll of 760 likely voters, 350 indicated they were likely to vote for Brown. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference in proportions for the two polls. Can we conclude that support for Brown has increased over the period covered by the two polls? Explain. (Explanations should be brief, but must be clear and use complete sentences with proper grammar!) STAT50
In the LA Time’s October 2010 poll of likely California voters, 480 of 922 surveyed were...
In March 2015, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) surveyed 7525 likely voters living in California. This is the 148th PPIC research poll, and is part of a survey series that started in 1998. PPIC researchers find that 3266 survey participants are registered Democrats and 2137 survey participants are registered Republicans. PPIC is interested in the difference in approval rate for the governor between registered Democrats and registered Republicans in California. Participants were asked: “Overall, do you approve or...