A study of bulimia among college women studied the connection between childhood sexual abuse and a...
A study of bulimia among college women studied the connection between childhood sexual abuse and a measure of family cohesion (the higher the score, the greater the cohesion). The sample mean on the family cohesion scale was 2.0 for 12 sexually abused students (=2.2) and 5.1 for 23nonabused students (=3.7).
a. Find the standard error for comparing the means.
b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean family cohesion for sexually abused students and non-abused students. Interpret.
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