What Does the Overlapping of Two Confidence Intervals Depict

question 2

Multiple Choice

What does the overlapping of two confidence intervals depict?

• A) The two means for the intervals are significantly different.
• B) Interpretation depends on the magnitude of overlap.
• C) The two means are not different.
• D) Nothing

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