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Tinterval - T Confidence Interval - Finds The Confidence Interval From A Sample Size N From An

This document contains examples and explanations of calculating confidence intervals from sample data. It discusses calculating 95% and 99% confidence intervals for means using sample size, mean, and standard deviation. The final example shows calculating a 90% confidence interval for the mean sleep time of 12 statistics students based on their individual sleep times the night before a final.

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Tinterval - T Confidence Interval - Finds The Confidence Interval From A Sample Size N From An

This document contains examples and explanations of calculating confidence intervals from sample data. It discusses calculating 95% and 99% confidence intervals for means using sample size, mean, and standard deviation. The final example shows calculating a 90% confidence interval for the mean sleep time of 12 statistics students based on their individual sleep times the night before a final.

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This means: if you repeatedly sample 150 bulbs, 95% of the samples will have a mean

between 57.8 and 58.6. The margin of error is 58.6 - 58.2 = .4 hours.
Example: 44 students took the monthly math contest. The results are below. L1 is the
score and L2 are how many students received this score. The standard
deviation for these exams over a long period of time is 1.22. Find a 99%
confidence interval for the average score of this exam.

Conclusion: if you repeated sample 44 students, 99% of the samples will have a mean
between 2.844 and 3.792. The margin of error is 3.792 - 3.318 = .474. The reason that
the margin of error is so relatively large is because we want a 99% confidence interval
and the sample size is not large.
* 8. TInterval - t confidence interval - finds the confidence interval from a sample size n from an
unknown population mean and unknown standard deviation ! .
When to use: you have some sample with size n. You dont know the population mean but
you do know the sample mean x and the sample standard deviation s. You want a confidence
interval for . It is assumed that the population distribution is normal. If the sample size is less
than 15, use only if the data is normal.
s
You are calculating x t *
n
Example: On a busy Saturday afternoon at a local supermarket, 25 people were timed as
to the time they got in line until the times their grocieries were bagged. The \
average time was 8.35 minutes with a standard deviation of 1.43 minutes.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean of time in line.

Conclusion: if you repeatedly sample 25 people, 95% of these samples would


have the mean between 7.760 minutes and 8.940 minutes. The margin of error is
8.94 - 8.35 = .59 minutes.
Example: 12 students who were taking a statistics final were polled as to how much
sleep they got the night before. The results are below. Find a 90% confidence
interval for the mean sleep time of statistics students before a final.
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