5: Introduction to Estimation

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Page (C:\Users\B. Burt Gerstman\Dropbox\StatPrimer\ , 5/8/2016) 5: Introduction to Estimation Contents Acronyms and symbols ........................................ ........................................ ....................... 1 Statistical inference ........................................ ........................................ ............................. 2 Estimating with confidence ........................................ ........................................ ............. 3 Sampling distribution of the mean ........................................ ........................................ .. 3 Confidence Interval for when is known before hand ........................................ ....... 4 Sample Size Requirements for estimating with confidence.

• Interval estimation (also called confidence interval for parameter) This chapter introduces estimation. The following chapter introduced NHTS. Both estimation and NHTS are used to infer parameters. A parameter is a statistical constant that describes a feature about a phenomena, population, pmf, or pdf.

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