You Can Determine Confidence Intervals for Individual Means or for the Difference

question 7

Essay

You can determine confidence intervals for individual means or for the difference in two means (for large, independent samples) as long as you are given these three things: the means, the standard deviations, and the __________.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" finding.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in statistics that proposes no significant difference or effect, serving as a default position until evidence suggests otherwise.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test, used to make a decision about the null hypothesis.

P-Value

A statistical measure that helps to determine the strength of the results to support or reject the null hypothesis.