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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Confidence Interval for raw dataTo find the range <strong>of</strong> values containing the central 95% <strong>of</strong> river levelobservations we want all values within 1.96 st<strong>and</strong>ard deviations <strong>of</strong> themean i.e. mean ± 1.96 × st<strong>and</strong>ard deviationIf we use the raw data the interval is: 105.29 ± 1.96(44.44) =(18.19, 192.39) This interval cannot be correct as it contains valuesbelow the minimum.Confidence Interval for transformed dataFor the transformed data the corresponding interval is:4.51 ± 1.96(0.43) =(3.67, 5.35)Back-transformingWe can back-transform these to the original scale using e:= (e 3.67 , e 5.35 ) = (39.14, 211.20)Hence 95% <strong>of</strong> river level observations would have values between39.14 <strong>and</strong> 211.20.107

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