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saraeharris

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What is a confidence coefficient?

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What is a confidence interval?



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Answer to Question 1

For a confidence interval, the proportion of such intervals that would include the population parameter if the process leading to the interval were repeated a great many times.

Answer to Question 2

A confidence interval is an interval estimate for which there is a specified degree of certainty that the actual value of the population parameter will fall within the interval.



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