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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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6.2.3 Interpreting a Confidence IntervalINTERPRETING A CONFIDENCE INTERVAL I• If 100 different samples are used to construct 100 intervals, then95 <strong>of</strong> these intervals will contain the population mean.INTERPRETING A CONFIDENCE INTERVAL II• Conversely, 5 <strong>of</strong> these intervals will miss the population mean.INTERPRETING A CONFIDENCE INTERVAL III• For 99% confidence intervals only 1 out <strong>of</strong> 100 will miss.• We say we are 95/99% confident the true mean lies in this interval.100

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