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No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. In other words, we will fail at capturing the true population mean only one out of every 20 times.
We will now look at a series of different mistakes that can be made when dealing with confidence intervals. The reason that this is a mistake is actually quite subtle. The key idea pertaining to a confidence interval is that the probability used enters the picture with the method that is used, in determining confidence interval is that it refers to the method that is used. To see why the above statement is incorrect, we could consider a normal population with a standard deviation of 1 and a mean of 5.
A sample that had two data points, each with values of 6 has a sample mean of 6. Reconsider the example from the last section. Any sample of size two that was comprised of only values less than 4. Thus these sample means would fall outside of this particular confidence interval.
A fourth mistake in dealing with confidence intervals is to think that they are the sole source of error. While there is a margin of error associated with a confidence interval, there are other places that errors can creep into a statistical analysis. A couple of examples of these kinds of errors could be from an incorrect design of the experiment, bias in the sampling or an inability to obtain data from a certain subset of the population.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Remember that when we're constructing a confidence interval we are estimating a population parameter when we only have data from a sample.
We don't know if our sample statistic is less than, greater than, or approximately equal to the population parameter. And, we don't know for sure if our confidence interval contains the population parameter or not.
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