Data from a study on ice hockey player performance after electrostimulation training yields a sample standard...
Data from a study on ice hockey player performance after electrostimulation training yields a sample standard deviation of performance of 0.09 seconds with a sample size of 15.
(a) Is there strong evidence to conclude that the standard deviation of performance time exceeds the historical value of 0.75 seconds? Use α=0.05. Find the P-value for this test.
(b) Discuss how part (a) could be answered by constructing a 99% one-sided confidence interval for σ.
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