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What is the 95-percent confidence interval? The most common size for a confidence
interval is 95 percent. Use it as a comparison for the other confidence intervals.
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What is the 90-percent confidence interval? It is narrower than the 95-percent confidence
interval, so we have less confidence that it includes the true value. But
note that it isn't that much smaller.
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Slide the scrollbar to the far left to get the 50-percent confidence interval.
With only a 50-50 chance
that the interval includes the true value, it can be much narrower. Does
it seem a lot different than the 95-percent confidence interval?
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What is the 99-percent confidence interval? It is wider than the 95-percent confidence
interval so we have more confidence that it includes the true value.
Is the original null hypothesis of guessing, an expected mean of 10,
contained in the 99-percent confidence interval?
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What is the largest confidence interval that does not include the
original null hypothesis of guessing, an expected mean of 10?
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What is the 99.9-percent confidence interval?
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If we wanted to be absolutely certain that we included the true mean,
we would want the 100-percent confidence interval. How wide would it be?
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