Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance, Quizzes of Statistics

Download Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Significance and more Quizzes Statistics in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 statistical inference DEFINITION 1 provides methods for drawing conclusions about a population from sample data two types of inference: confidence intervals and significance tests; both based on the smpling distributions of statistics TERM 2 confidence intervals DEFINITION 2 estimate of a population parameter and is used to indicate the reliability of an estimate. in a word problem, indicated by the word "estimating" TERM 3 tests of significance DEFINITION 3 used to assess the evidence for or against a claim about a population TERM 4 conditions for inferencing about a mean DEFINITION 4 1) have an SRS from the population of interest 2) the variable measured has a normal distribution; N(,) in the population 3) , population mean, is unknown, but , population sd is known TERM 5 x DEFINITION 5 population mean