Confidence Intervals
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a) There is a 95% probability (chance)
that the interval from 107.8 to 116.2
contains µ
Incorrect. The probability is 1 or 0. We don’t know which!
10.2 page 625
b) There is a 95% chance that the
interval (107.8 ,116.2) contains x bar.
• Incorrect. The general form of these
confidence intervals is xbar + or – m (margin
of error), so xbar is always in the center of the
interval!
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c) This interval was constructed using
a method that results in intervals
which capture the true mean in 95%
of all possible samples.
• Incorrect. The different samples will yield
different sample means, and the distribution
of those sample means is used to provide an
interval that captures the population mean.
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d) 95% of all possible samples will
contain the interval (107.8, 116.2)
• Incorrect. There is nothing magical about the
interval from this one sample! Our method of
computing confidence intervals is based on
capturing the mean of the population, not a
particular interval from one sample.
e)The probability of the interval
(107.8, 116.2) captures µ is either 0 or
1, but we don’t know which!
• YEAH! CORRECT INTERPRETATION!