1In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the historic health care reform bill that wil

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1In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the historic health care reform bill that will provide some type of coverage for the 32 million Americans currently without health care insurance. Just how widespread was the lack of medical coverage? The media claim that the segments of the population most at risk are women, children, the elderly, and the poor. The tables below give the number of uninsured (in thousands) classified by gender and by household income in 2011. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2011)

1. What analysis type is best to estimate with 95% confidence the difference in insurance coverage between males and females, given the available data?

a. List the data conditions that you will need to verify in order to for the estimate to be valid.

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What analysis type is best to estimate with 95% confidence the difference in insurance coverage between males and females, given the available data?

the best type of analysis to estimate 95% confidence the difference is with a Z test of proportions and find a confidence interval

a. List the data conditions that you will need to verify in order to for the estimate to be valid.

we need that the 2 samples have proportion and normally distributed ( an aproximation)

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