The Role of the Sample Mean in a Confidence

question 134

Multiple Choice

The role of the sample mean in a confidence interval estimate for the population mean is to determine:

• A) the sample size needed
• B) the confidence coefficient 1 -
• C) the margin of error in the estimate
• D) all of these
• E) none of these

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