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In the Health ABC Study, 520 subjects owned a pet and 1962 subjects did not. Amo

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Question

In the Health ABC Study, 520 subjects owned a pet and 1962 subjects did not. Among the pet owners, there were 300 women; 953 of the non-pet owners were women. Find the proportion of pet owners who were women. Do the same for the non-pet owners. (Be sure to let Population 1 correspond to the group with the higher proportion so that the difference will be positive. Round your answers to three decimal places.)


Give a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the two proportions. (Do not use rounded values. Round your final answers to three decimal places.)

(____,____)

p1 = p2 =

Explanation / Answer

p1=300/520=0.5769 ; n2=520

p2=953/1962 =0.4857

std error of difference =(p1(1-p1)/n1+p2(1-p2)/n2)1/2 =0.024

for 95% CI, z=1.96

hence confidence interval =(p1-p2)+/- z*std error =0.043 ; 0.139