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Two-Tailed Test: Definition, Examples, and Importance in Statistics

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What Is a Confidence Interval and How Do You Calculate It?

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6 Estimation & hypothesis testing

Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests are directly linked. Confidence intervals can be used to check the reasonableness of claims about the parameter. If someone claims the parameter is equal to ...
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4 Ideas of statistical inference

Confidence intervals are computed from a random sample and therefore they are also random. The long run behavior of a 95% confidence interval is such that we’d expect 95% of the confidence intervals ...