SOLUTION: I am having trouble grasping the concept confidence intervals. My questions are: a. Would this be okay to use if I had a small sample size (n), such as 10? b. When should yo

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Question 1046905: I am having trouble grasping the concept confidence intervals. My questions are:
a. Would this be okay to use if I had a small sample size (n), such as 10?
b. When should you use confidence intervals?

Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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b. When should you use confidence intervals?
Confidence Intervals are used for situations where there is an Unknown Mean muand a Known Population Standard Deviation alpha
Or
for cases with Unknown Population Mean or Population Standard Deviation
Latter being the most common