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Confidence Intervals Explained: Examples

The document provides an example of calculating confidence intervals from sample data. A sample of 127.3 people had a mean of 127.3 and standard deviation of 19.0 for a particular variable. A 95% confidence interval for the variable's true mean in the population was calculated as 126.7 to 127.9. A 90% confidence interval was also calculated but not explicitly stated. Large sample sizes result in narrow confidence intervals and small margins of error.

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Confidence Intervals Explained: Examples

The document provides an example of calculating confidence intervals from sample data. A sample of 127.3 people had a mean of 127.3 and standard deviation of 19.0 for a particular variable. A 95% confidence interval for the variable's true mean in the population was calculated as 126.7 to 127.9. A 90% confidence interval was also calculated but not explicitly stated. Large sample sizes result in narrow confidence intervals and small margins of error.

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Additional Examples: Confidence intervals

Example
Descriptive statistics on a variable measured in a sample of n=127.3 are shown below.
Characteristic
variable

Sample Mean

Standard Deviation (s)

3,534

127.3

19.0

Determine the 95% and 90% confidence interval of this sample.

Answer
Because the sample is large, we can generate a 95% confidence interval for the variable using
the following formula:

The Z value for 95% confidence is Z=1.96 .


Substituting the sample statistics and the Z value for 95% confidence, we have

Therefore, the point estimate for the true mean of the sample under study in the population is
127.3, and we are 95% confident that the true mean is between 126.7 and 127.9. The margin of
error is very small (the confidence interval is narrow), because the sample size is large.
The 90% confidence interval for the sample mean would be:

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