Friday, 21 November 2003
Confidence Intervals

Topics
Assignments
Resources
  • The Central Limit Theorem
  • Confidence intervals for the mean:

Experiment with and study 'The Central Limit Theorem in Action' and confidence interval applets referenced in 'Resources.'

Read pp 320 - 330 (Confidence Intervals)

Exercises:

  1. p 258; 10.8
  2. p 261; 10.11
  3. p 325; 13.1
  4. p 329; 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
  5. p 330; 13.7

'The Central Limit Theorem in Action' applet, author: David Krider

'New Confidence Interval Applet' by R. Webster West, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of South Carolina
west@stat.sc.edu

'Confidence Interval Applet', R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden
University of South Carolina
Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.3 (1998)

'Confidence Interval Applet', Jeffrey S. Buzas, The University of Vermont, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

MINITAB

Text: The Basic Practice of Statistics, David S. Moore; Third Edition, Freeman, 2003