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25 November, 16:22

In analyzing data from over 700 games in the National Football League, economist David Romer identified 1068 fourth-down situations in which, based on his analysis, the right call would have been to go for it and not to punt. Nonetheless, in 959 of those situations, the teams punted. Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of times NFL teams punt on a fourth down when, statistically speaking, they shouldn't be punting. 1 Assume the sample is reasonably representative of all such fourth down situations in the NFL.

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  1. 25 November, 19:56
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    Answer: between 0.88 and 0.916

    Explanation: parameters given are:

    n = 1068

    CI = 95 % = 1.96

    p = 959

    Let us Divide p by n.

    959 / 1068 = 0.898

    Then,

    0.898 - / + 1.96 (√0.898 (1 - 0.898) / 1068)

    Find standard error

    √0.898 (1 - 0.898) / 1068 = 0.009

    Also let us Find Margin of error.

    (1.96) (0.009) = 0.018

    Then calculate confidence interval.

    0.898 - / + 0.018 = 0.880 to 0.916

    The 95% confidence, that the proportion of times NFL teams punt on a fourth down when they shouldn't be punting is between 0.880 and 0.916
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