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What is meant by the term "90% confident" when constructing a confidence interval for a mean? Group of answer choices

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Harman [31]3 years ago

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Answer:

The question is not complete, below is the complete question:

What is meant by the term 90% confident? when constructing a confidence interval for a mean?

a. If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the samples would produce the same confidence interval.

b. If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the confidence intervals calculated from those samples would contain the sample mean.

c. If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the confidence intervals calculated from those samples would contain the true value of the population mean.

d. If we took repeated samples, the sample mean would equal the population mean in approximately 90% of the samples.

Answer:

The correct answer is:

If we took repeated samples, approximately 90% of the confidence intervals calculated from those samples would contain the true value of the population mean. (c)

Step-by-step explanation:

a 90% confidence level means that if repeated samples were taken, 9 out of 10 times, the confidence intervals of the sample chosen will be close to the mean (true value), which is a true representation of the population parameter. when using confidence intervals, there are always margins of allowable accuracy, and this is suggested by using standard diviations snd variances.

I attached a simple document to this answer that will give you more insight into confidence intervals used in statistics.

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