Discrete Probability Distributions Lefties Suppose a friend of yours told you that 10% of people in the population are left-handed. You randomly select 15 people from and count the number of lefties...

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Suppose a friend of yours told you that 10% of people in the population are left-handed. You randomly select 15 people from and count the number of lefties in the sample, denoted X. Answer the following questions assuming people are either left or right handed but not both.



  1. Find out the probability distribution of X and present the probability distribution in the form of a table using 5 decimal points in your answers.
    (You have to use
    Excel
    to calculate the probabilities, as the binomial table only gives the probabilities correct to 3 d.p.)



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  1. How many lefties would you expect the sample of 15 contains using



  • the formula of expected value of discrete random variable

  • the binomial formula for expected value


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  1. Explain what
    expectation
    in statistics means in the context of the
    Lefties
    example.


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  1. What is the probability of getting 5 or more lefties in the sample of 15?


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  1. If the sample contains 5 lefties, would you suspect your friend might be wrong? Discuss fully. (type I error)


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Discrete Probability Distributions Lefties Suppose a friend of yours told you that 10% of people in the population are left-handed. You randomly select 15 people from and count the number of lefties in the sample, denoted X. Answer the following questions assuming people are either left or right handed but not both. Find out the probability distribution of X and present the probability distribution in the form of a table using 5 decimal points in your answers. (You have to use Excel to calculate the probabilities, as the binomial table only gives the probabilities correct to 3 d.p.) (2 marks) How many lefties would you expect the sample of 15 contains using the formula of expected value of discrete random variable the binomial formula for expected value (Show working.) (2 marks) Explain what expectation in statistics means in the context of the Lefties example. (2 marks) What is the probability of getting 5 or more lefties in the sample of 15? (Show working.) (2 marks) If the sample contains 5 lefties, would you suspect your friend might be wrong? Discuss fully. (type I error) (2 marks) Submit a single document in pdf format



Answered Same DayDec 26, 2021

Answer To: Discrete Probability Distributions Lefties Suppose a friend of yours told you that 10% of people in...

Robert answered on Dec 26 2021
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a.
There are two possible outcomes (called success and failure) on each trial. That is either you

get a success (lefties) or failure (not lefties). In advance the probability of success, denoted by
p is same one ach trial. Here, p is 0.10. As one proceeds, the trials are independent. That is
finding lefties in the first trial does not change what might happen when one reaches for the
next. Therefore, X follows binomial probability distribution. Use, P(X,r)=nCr(p)^r(1-p)^n-r ,
where n is number of trials, p is probability of success, r is specific number of success in n
trials. The syntax for computing probabilities using binomial distribution is
=BINOMDIST(0,15,0.10,F), where, 0 stands for number_s, 15...
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