A Statistician Wishes to Reduce the Margin of Error Associated

question 33

Multiple Choice

A statistician wishes to reduce the margin of error associated with a confidence interval estimate for a population proportion p. What does she or he need to do?

• A) reduce the confidence level 1 -
• B) decrease the sample size n
• C) take another sample
• D) increase the sample size n

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