Largest count of fans that rejects a 20 percent claim
Question
Alice says of people love Spotify; Bob suspects the true share is lower. He surveys random people and runs a one-sided large-sample z-test at (critical value ). What is the largest number of Spotify lovers in his sample that still lets him reject Alice's claim?
Short answer
. Under the sample proportion has standard error . Rejection needs , i.e. at most people out of .
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- Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Score and Log-Likelihood
- Populations, Samples, and Sampling Distributions
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