Abstract
We all sense that large samples are more informative than small ones, because of something vaguely called the “law of averages.” This class considers how to use the information in a sample to make a claim about some population feature. The normal distribution plays a key role.
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Foster, D.P., Stine, R.A., Waterman, R.P. (1998). Confidence Intervals. In: Basic Business Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1696-4_5
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