A Statistics Professor Wishes to Estimate the Average Mark on a Term

question 93

Multiple Choice

A statistics professor wishes to estimate the average mark on a term test for a course that has
Multiple sections and many students. A survey of some of the students registered for the course
Reveals the following results:
If 90% and 95% confidence intervals were developed to estimate the true term test mean, what
Similarities would exist?

• A) Point estimates
• B) t-values
• C) Standard errors
• D) Both point estimates and standard errors
• E) No similarities with point estimates, t-values or standard errors

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