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(22.06) Resistance training is a popular form of conditioning aimed at enhancing

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Question

(22.06) Resistance training is a popular form of conditioning aimed at enhancing sports performance and is widely used among high school, college, and professional athletes, although its use for younger athletes is controversial. Researchers obtained a random sample of 4245 patients between the ages of 8 and 30 who were admitted to U. S. emergency rooms with injuries classified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission code "weight-lifting." These injuries were further classified as " accidental" if caused by dropped weight or improper equipment use. Of the 4245 weight-lifting injuries, 1647 were classified as accidental.

What is a 98% confidence interval for the proportion of weight-lifting injuries in this age group that were accidental?

The 98% confidence interval (±± 0.001) is from to

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

One sample proportion summary confidence interval:
p : Proportion of successes
Method: Standard-Wald

98% confidence interval results:

Hence,

98% confidence interval will be:

0.371 to 0.405

Proportion Count Total Sample Prop. Std. Err. L. Limit U. Limit p 1647 4245 0.38798587 0.0074791085 0.37058686 0.40538487