The Confidence Interval Estimate of the Expected Value of Y

question 4

True/False

The confidence interval estimate of the expected value of y will be narrower than the prediction interval for the same given value of x and confidence level. This is because there is less error in estimating a mean value as opposed to predicting an individual value.

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