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Attached find example 6.7 from BioStatistics by Van Belle. Can someone please work out the problem in detail including explanations and calculations of the ptilda values.

Please explain what ptilda is and how does one compute the p value using ptilda.

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In this problem we want to test the null hypothesis against the alternative hypothesis , where denotes the proportion.
Suppose denotes sample proportion in a sample of size n
Then can be taken as the test statistic and the corresponding critical (or rejection) region is given by , where c denotes the critical value.
It is given that n = 10 ...

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