Statistics: confidence intervals

State the repeated-sampling interpretation.

How to study this source

• How do we reason under uncertainty?

  extensionNamed section and worked examples

  State the repeated-sampling interpretation.

• What can a small dataset tell me, and what can it not?

  extension8.1 A Single Population Mean using the Normal Distribution

  Read the known-population-standard-deviation assumptions before using this interval.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Statistics: centre

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Statistics: spread

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Probability: terminology

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Probability: independent and mutually exclusive events

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Probability: two basic rules

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.