Transcription of 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 .. 6 Estimating p with 7 Sampling distribution of the proportion .. 7 Confidence interval for p .. 7 Sample size requirement for estimating p with confidence .. 9 Acronyms and symbols q complement of the sample proportion x sample mean p sample proportion 1 confidence level CI confidence interval LCL lower confidence limit m margin of error n sample size NHTS null hypothesis test of significance p binomial success parameter ( population proportion ) s sample standard deviation SDM sampling distribution of mean (hypothetic)
Page 5.2 (C:\Users\B. Burt Gerstman\Dropbox\StatPrimer\estimation.docx, 5/8/2016). Statistical inference . Statistical inference is the act of generalizing from the data (“sample”) to a larger phenomenon (“population”) with calculated degree of certainty. The act of generalizing and deriving statistical judgments is the process of inference.[Note: There is a distinction
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