What Does It Mean for a Confidence Interval for the Difference

question 19

Multiple Choice

What does it mean for a confidence interval for the difference of two means to contain zero?

• A)You are unable to say there is a difference in the population means.
• B)Different samples could give results in either direction; completely above zero, completely below zero, or containing zero.
• C)The confidence interval will contain some negative numbers and some positive numbers.
• D)All of the above.

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