Which (if any) of the following statements about a 95% confidence interval for a mean is CORRECT?
Question:
Which (if any) of the following statements about a 95% confidence interval for a mean is CORRECT?
A. The 95% confidence interval will include the true population mean.
B. The 95% confidence interval will include the observed mean.
C. If the study were repeated 100 times, of the 100 resulting 95%
confidence intervals for the mean, we would expect 95 of these to include the true population mean.
D. There is a probability of 0.95 that the true population mean lies between the lower and upper limits of the confidence interval.
E. A 95% confidence interval is a range of values which will include the true population mean for 90% of possible samples.
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Medical Statistics A Textbook For The Health Sciences
ISBN: 9781119423645
5th Edition
Authors: Stephen J. Walters, Michael J. Campbell, David Machin