(Content Note: A recent study on race and Covid is referenced in this video.)
Educators in California are concerned that high school students do not get enough sleep. They collect data about 300 students, and calculate a 99% confidence interval for the average hours of sleep a night to be \((7.0, 7.5)\).
Which of the following is a correct interpretation of the confidence interval?
You don’t need to carefully read every word in this chapter, but please look over it. In particular, you’ll find some shortcuts from the infer
package that make the bootstrapping process even easier and cleaner!
Fun Fact:
The term “bootstrap” comes from the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps!” meaning, essentially, that you should take responsibility for your own life improvement.