Amounts awarded in 17 malpractice cases

Data for Exercise 5.73

Malpract

Format

A data frame/tibble with 17 observations on one variable

award

malpractice reward (in $1000)

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

SIGN.test(Malpract$award, conf.level = 0.90)
#> 
#> 	One-sample Sign-Test
#> 
#> data:  Malpract$award
#> s = 17, p-value = 1.526e-05
#> alternative hypothesis: true median is not equal to 0
#> 90 percent confidence interval:
#>   263.4922 1149.2017
#> sample estimates:
#> median of x 
#>         450 
#> 
#> Achieved and Interpolated Confidence Intervals: 
#> 
#>                   Conf.Level   L.E.pt   U.E.pt
#> Lower Achieved CI     0.8565 275.0000  850.000
#> Interpolated CI       0.9000 263.4922 1149.202
#> Upper Achieved CI     0.9510 250.0000 1500.000
#>