Statistical inference: confidence intervals

11 important questions on Statistical inference: confidence intervals

What is crucial for statistical inference methods?

- data must e gathered from random samples.
- probability calculations of interference methods are based on a sampling distribution.

Which kind of statistical inference methods are there?

  • estimation of population parameters
  • testing hypotheses about parameter values.

How do we call an interval of numbers, constructed through estimation, of which an unknown parameter value is believed to fall?

an interval estimate, or a confidence interval.
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What are two properties of a good estimate?

  • the sampling distribution center (mean) aligns with the parameter.
  • a good estimator has a small standard deviation.

When is an estimator unbiased?

when the mean of the sampling distribution aligns with the parameter.

If the point estimate is 50500 with a margin of error is 2000 what is the interval?

48500-52500.

How do we call a number that indicates the probability that the parameter falls within the interval estimate?

the confidence level.

How do we call a measurement of how accurate a point estimate is likely to be estimating the parameter?

the margin of error

How is the margin of error calculated?

sample proportion +/- 1,96*standard deviation.

What is a criteria for calculating the confidence interval with ^p +/- 1,96*se?

the sample size must include 15 failures, and 15 successes.

Which z-score should you use to calculate a 99% confidence interval for a population proportion?

2,58

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