Elementary Statistics: A Step-by-Step Approach with Formula Card 9th Edition

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Chapter 7 - Confidence Intervals and Sample - Review Exercises - Section 7-4 - Page 408: 16

Answer

$28.6\leq\sigma^2\leq 334.2$ and $5.3\leq\sigma\leq 18.3$

Work Step by Step

From the data set we have $n=11, s^2=72.05$ for $c=0.99$ use the $\chi^2$ table with $df=10, \alpha/2=0.005,0.995$ we find $\chi^2_{right}=25.188$ and $\chi^2_{left}=2.156$ we can then build a variance confidence interval as $\frac{10\times72.05}{25.188}$ to $\frac{10\times72.05}{2.156}$ this mean that the population variance is in the range of $28.6\leq\sigma^2\leq 334.2$ and the population standard deviation is in the range of $5.3\leq\sigma\leq 18.3$
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