6.6 Large-Sample Test of Hypothesis about a Population Proportion
Inferences about population proportions (or percentages) are often made in the context of the probability p of “success” for a binomial distribution. We saw how to use largeLarge samples from binomial distributions to form confidence intervals for p in Section 7.4. We now consider tests of hypotheses about p.
Consider, for example, a method currently used by doctors to screen women for breast cancer. The method fails to detect cancer in 20% of the women who actually have the disease. Suppose a new method has been developed that researchers hope will detect cancer more accurately. This new method was used to screen a random sample of 140 women known to have breast cancer. Of these, ...
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