The Sampling Distribution for a Proportion Has a Formula for That

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Essay

The sampling distribution for a proportion has a formula for that standard error that involves using p. Yet when a confidence interval is calculated for a proportion, the standard error formula uses the sample proportion. Why do they differ?

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