What is the research question of interest for the study

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Question: A medical researcher wants to estimate the difference in the proportions of women with high blood pressure for women who use oral contraceptives versus women who do not use oral contraceptives. In an observational study involving a sample of 900 women, the researcher finds that .15 (15%) of the 500 women who used oral contraceptives had high blood pressure, whereas only .10 (10%) of the 400 women who did not use oral contraceptives had high blood pressure.

a. What is the research question of interest for this study?

b. What is the population parameter in this study? What is the appropriate statistical notation for this parameter?

c. What is the value of the sample estimate (statistic) in this study? What is the appropriate statistical notation for this estimate?

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