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According to Barker and Kitcher, Many People Seek to Retain

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According to Barker and Kitcher, many people seek to retain their traditional beliefs in the face of scientific progress by

Realize the importance of the assumption about population distribution (normality) and sample independence in the context of confidence interval estimation.
Understand the role of standard error in the construction of confidence intervals and its calculation for different estimations.
Understand the concept and application of confidence intervals in estimating population parameters.
Define and recognize unbiased estimators and their importance in statistical inference.

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