Confidence Interval for the Mean μ
distpic_z.gifThe t distribution is symmetric but there is a different distribution for each sample size.
Critical value of z for confidence intervalsThe critical value of t can be found in Table A-3 by looking in the column for the area (significance level) in two tails and the row for the number of degrees of freedom. df = n - 1
Margin of Error
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Confidence Interval
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Use a calculator to compute the mean, x-bar is the sum of the individual values divided by the number of value in the sample and the standard deviation, s of the sample if they are not given in the problem.