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In a political poll of 100 randomly selected voters, 35 expressed support for initiative A. How does one estimate the proportion of voters in the whole population that supports initiative A based on the sample of 100? How much confidence do we have in our estimate?
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Schinazi, R.B. (2001). Estimation and Hypothesis Testing. In: Probability with Statistical Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3421-8_5
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