AQA S3 2008 June — Question 5

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2008
SessionJune
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeConfidence interval for single proportion

5 The daily number of emergency calls received from district A may be modelled by a Poisson distribution with a mean of \(\lambda _ { \mathrm { A } }\). The daily number of emergency calls received from district B may be modelled by a Poisson distribution with a mean of \(\lambda _ { \mathrm { B } }\). During a period of 184 days, the number of emergency calls received from district A was 3312, whilst the number received from district B was 2760.
  1. Construct an approximate \(95 \%\) confidence interval for \(\lambda _ { \mathrm { A } } - \lambda _ { \mathrm { B } }\).
  2. State one assumption that is necessary in order to construct the confidence interval in part (a).