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Confidence Interval for a Mean

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Confidence Interval for a Mean

As long as you have a “large” sample….

Example

What happens if you can only take a “small” sample?

If you have a “small” sample...

Student’s t distribution versus Normal Z distribution

T distribution

Let’s compare t and Z values

OK, enough theorizing! Let’s get back to our example!

That is...

What happens as sample gets larger?

What happens to CI as sample gets larger?

Example

One not-so-small problem!

Strategy for deciding how to analyze

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Z interval in Minitab

t interval in Minitab

Author: Laura J. Simon

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