In the week before and the week after a holiday, 13,000 total deaths, and 6474 of...
In the week before and the week after a holiday, 13,000 total deaths, and 6474 of them occurred in the week before the holiday.
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the proportion of deaths in the week before the holiday to the total deaths in the week before and the week after the holiday.
b. Based on the result, does there appear to be any indication that people can temporarily postpone their death to survive the holiday?
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