As an Aid to the Establishment of Personnel Requirements, the Director

Essay

As an aid to the establishment of personnel requirements, the director of a hospital wishes to estimate the mean number of people who are admitted to the emergency room during a 24-hour period.The director randomly selects 64 different 24-hour periods and determines the number of admissions foreach.For this sample, $\bar { X } = 396$ and S = 100.Estimate the mean number of admissions per 24-hourperiod with a 95% confidence interval.