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CH 8 - CI For One Population - Lecture

The document discusses confidence intervals for a population mean and proportion. It covers assumptions for confidence intervals of the mean including a normal population. It also covers assumptions for confidence intervals of a proportion including sample sizes greater than or equal to 5.

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CH 8 - CI For One Population - Lecture

The document discusses confidence intervals for a population mean and proportion. It covers assumptions for confidence intervals of the mean including a normal population. It also covers assumptions for confidence intervals of a proportion including sample sizes greater than or equal to 5.

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Chapter 8

SINGLE POPULATION MEAN (𝝁)


Assumptions
OR
s

Determination

An approximate
Interpretation of a Confidence Interval

i) Interpretation of a random interval


Before we plug in the information of a specific sample in
the interval, it is considered as a random interval such as

This random interval is interpreted as


If an infinite number of random samples are
collected and a 100(1-𝛼)% confidence interval is
computed from each sample, 100(1-𝛼)% of these
intervals will contain the true value of 𝜇.

ii) Interpretation of a fixed interval


In practice we obtain only one random sample and
calculate one confidence interval. Since this interval will
or will not contain the true value of 𝜇, it is therefore not
reasonable to attach a probability level to this
specific event.
The appropriate statement is that the observed
interval [𝑙, 𝑢] brackets the true value of 𝜇 with
confidence 100(1-𝛼)%

Assumptions for CI of mean: Population is Normal


Assumptions for CI of proportion: n1p1, n1q1, n2p2, n2q2 all
are greater than or equal to 5 (because of large sample
approximation-Normal approximation to Binomial)

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