Initial Post Instructions
Find an example of a confidence interval in the news, scholarly source or medical journal. Summarize the article/study. Does the article/study include the sample size and the level of confidence used to create the confidence interval? Explain what the confidence interval means in context of the news article or scholarly source. APA format. Summarize your results using the format
We can be ______ confident that the true population mean lies in the interval _______________.
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.
Here are some suggested responses–
- How do you think the confidence interval that was presented in the study was calculated?
- Explain the mathematical concepts could you extract from this article/study.