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January 25, 2005

Confidence Intervals

The Central Limit Theorem is the basis for the most basic confidence intervals.

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We can, for example, apply the CLT to a binomial distribution with a large number of observations.

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The math:

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It is important to understand that the confidence interval is stochastic, not the unknown true parameter.

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Posted by bparke at January 25, 2005 09:30 PM

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