A 99 Percent Confidence Interval Allows Us to Say That

question 32

Multiple Choice

A 99 percent confidence interval allows us to say that if we took many, many samples from the population:

• A) all of the samples would contain a range that included the population parameter
• B) 99 percent of the samples would contain a range that included the population parameter
• C) 99 percent of the samples would allow us to estimate the mean within + or - 1 percent
• D) 1 percent of the samples would contain a range that included the population parameter
• E) 1 percent of the samples would allow us to estimate the mean with + or - 1 percent