Joseph and Kandy when we develop a confidence interval (CI) we are computing a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is an interval that tells us that the population means lies between an upper and lower interval. What are commonly …...
WEEK 5: CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
CONCEPTS
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Look in the newspapers, magazines, and other news sources for results of a survey or
poll that show the confidence interval, usually shows as a +/- some amount. Describe
the survey or poll and then describe the interval shown. How does knowing the interval,
rather than just the main result, impact your view of the results?
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Collapse SubdiscussionIlina Grantcharova
Ilina Grantcharova
Sep 29, 2018 Sep 29 at 6:17pm
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Class, let’s start this discussion with a definition of confidence interval for a
population mean.
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Collapse SubdiscussionCharlene Ruffin
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Oct 1, 2018 Oct 1 at 11:16am
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Class, let’s start this discussion with a definition of confidence interval for a
population mean.
According to our lesson confidence intervals are poll results in the news, you often
see +/- 3% at the bottom. If polls come out to 20% with +/- 3% the interval would be
17% to 23%.
So, a 95% confidence interval means that if we took 100 samples of the same size
from the same population, 95 of those confidence intervals would encompass the
TRUE population.
However, there is a 5% chance that the confidence interval we created does not
include the TRUE population mean.
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