Question

According to Reader's Digest, 42 percent of primary care doctors think their patients receive unnecessary medical care.

According to Reader's Digest, 42 percent of primary care doctors think their patients receive unnecessary medical care.
(a).Suppose a sample of 290 primary care doctors was taken. Show the sampling distribution of the proportion of the doctors who think their patients receive unnecessary medical care.

Answer 1

The population in this study refers to all primary care doctors, and the parameter is the proportion of primary care doctors who think their patients receive unnecessary medical care. The sample is the 290 primary care doctors that were taken, and the statistic is the proportion of primary care doctors who think their patients receive unnecessary medical care in the sample.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this study, the population refers to all primary care doctors. The parameter is the proportion of primary care doctors who think their patients receive unnecessary medical care in the population. The sample is the 290 primary care doctors that were taken. The statistic is the proportion of primary care doctors who think their patients receive unnecessary medical care in the sample.