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Question 489597: Can someone explain to me why my questions are not being answered. I have submitted several over the past weeks and have not received an answer. If I am submitting them wrong would someone please tell me what I am doing wrong.
1.A confidence interval is an interval estimate of which: a population parameter or a sample statistic? Please explain.
2. Consider a sample mean xbar of 46 calculated from a sample of size 35 drawn from a population of over 1000.
Would it be appropriate to use the standard score table to look up the probability of a z score calculated on these data?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1.A confidence interval is an interval estimate of which: a population parameter or a sample statistic? Please explain.
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Ans: A population parameter.
A sample is used to develop the interval extimate, but the goal
is to develop a confidence statement for the population mean
or the population proportion, or some other population parameter.
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2. Consider a sample mean xbar of 46 calculated from a sample of size 35 drawn from a population of over 1000.
Would it be appropriate to use the standard score table to look up the probability of a z score calculated on these data?
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Textbooks vary in answering questions of this type. The current thinking
is that the t-distribution should be used to test the population mean.
I would suggest you carefully read the testing conditions in your text.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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