Health insurers are beginning to offer telemedicine services online that replace
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Health insurers are beginning to offer telemedicine services online that replace the common office visit. Wellpoint provides a video service that allows subscribers to connect with a physician online and receive prescribed treatments. Wellpoint claims that users of its LiveHealth Online service saved a significant amount of money on a typical visit. The data shown below ($), for a sample of 20 online doctor visits, are consistent with the savings per visit reported by Wellpoint. 90 34 39 106 83 53 54 50 40 75 48 96 94 72 74 79 91 102 52 83 Assuming the population is roughly symmetric, construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean savings for a televisit to the doctor as opposed to an office visit (to 2 decimals). 95% confidence interval: $ to $ per visit
Explanation / Answer
Mean 70.75 SD 22.68 SEM 5.07 N 20 95% CI is (70.75+-5.07*1.96)=60.13 to 81.37
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