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Introductory Statistics
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Introductory Statistics

Introductory Statistics

Book edition OER 2018
Author(s) Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Pages 902 pages
ISBN 9781938168208

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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.

From all we get the answer is (C) which in 90% confident .

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Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Given

The term 90% confident ?

Step 2: Explanation 

When creating a confidence interval for a mean, the term "90%confident" refers to the supposedly oberserved confidence intervals that hold the true value.

Part c is the answer: if we took repeated samples, nearly 90% of the confidence intervals computed from those samples would contain the population mean's true value.

Step 3: Result

Part c is the correct .

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