Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapter 8 (All Sections)
- Lesson
- Minimum of 1 scholarly source
Initial Post Instructions
Find an example of a confidence interval in the news, scholarly source or medical journal. Summarize the article/study. Does the article/study include the sample size and the level of confidence used to create the confidence interval? Explain what the confidence interval means in context of the news article or scholarly source.
ANSWER:
For this week’s discussion, I chose an article in the Journal of The American Academy of Pediatrics regarding asking for identification and retail tobacco sales to minors. A single county study was done before that found that a large number of illegal tobacco sales still occurred after minors showed proof of identification that they were too young even though retail stores usually asked young-looking tobacco customers for identification. To test this on a larger scale, state reports for federal fiscal years 2017 and 2018 from a federal agency that tracks…. To continue reading, click on the button below.