Suppose you record 83 successes out of a random sample of 200 drawn from a population that yielded a proportion of successes of .40 in a previous study.

If you were to calculate a standardized test statistic for a hypothesis test about the population proportion, where H subscript 0 : p subscript 0 equals.40, what would your standard deviation of p with hat on top look like?

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Answer: 0.0346

Step-by-step explanation:

Required formula : [tex]\sigma_{\hat{p}}=\sqrt{\dfrac{p(1-p)}{n}}[/tex] , where p= population proportion

n= sample size.

Let p be the population proportion for successes .

As per given , we have

Null hypothesis : [tex]H_0: p_0=0.40[/tex]

n= 200

Standard deviation of [tex]\hat{p}[/tex] = [tex]\sigma_{\hat{p}}=\sqrt{\dfrac{0.40(1-0.40)}{200}}[/tex]

[tex]\sigma_{\hat{p}}=\sqrt{0.0012}[/tex]

[tex]\sigma_{\hat{p}}=0.0346410161514\approx0.0346[/tex]

Hence , the required standard deviation of [tex]\hat{p}[/tex] = 0.0346

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