A recent study claimed that half of all college students "drink to get drunk" at least once in a while. Believing that the true proportion is much lower, the College Alcohol Study interviews an SRS of 14,941 college students about their drinking habits and finds that 7,352 of them occasionally "drink to get drunk". What type of statistical inference is this?

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Luca Castro

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1 November, 14:31

A recent study claimed that half of all college students "drink to get drunk" at least once in a while. Believing that the true proportion is much lower, the College Alcohol Study interviews an SRS of 14,941 college students about their drinking habits and finds that 7,352 of them occasionally "drink to get drunk". What type of statistical inference is this?

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Keon Avery · Answer 1

Answer: Hypothesis testing

Step-by-step explanation:

In statistics, Hypothesis testing is a general procedure to check the results of a experiment or a survey to confirm that they have actual and valid results.

Given claim : A recent study claimed that half of all college students "drink to get drunk" at least once in a while. By believing that the true proportion is much lower, the College Alcohol Study interviews an SRS of 14,941 college students about their drinking habits and finds that 7,352 of them occasionally "drink to get drunk".

Here the College Alcohol Study is just testing the results of the survey.

Hence, this is is s a type of Hypothesis testing.