How many minutes does the average patient at the UK emergency room wait before being seen...
How many minutes does the average patient at the UK emergency room wait before being seen by a physician? UK medical center states that the average waiting time in their emergency room is 45 minutes. You track 40 patients who enter the emergency room and find an average waiting time of 67.3 minutes with a variance of 34.1 minutes. What statistical test should be used to determine if UK claims are incorrect?
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I will use a one way t test to solve this problem.
We will go with a hypothesis test, which will use the 1 sample t-test will basically test if my sample mean is representative of the population based on the population mean, sample mean ( claimed value), population variance, and an assumed confidence level ( alpha).
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