Opinions Appearing in West's Federal Appendix

question 21

Multiple Choice

Opinions appearing in West's Federal Appendix

• A) are binding precedents.
• B) may be persuasive to the court.
• C) may give some indication of how a court is likely to rule in the future.
• D) may be persuasive to the court and may give some indication of how a court is likely to rule in the future.
• E) are binding precedents, may be persuasive to the court, and may give some indication of how a court is likely to rule in the future.

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Definitions:

Unbiased Estimator

A statistic used to estimate a parameter that is expected to equal the true parameter of the population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Population Parameter

A numerical characteristic or measure that describes an aspect of a population.

Sampling Error

The discrepancy between the statistical characteristics of a sample and those of the population from which the sample was drawn.