The confidence interval for the variance has upper and lower limits equal to the squares of the corresponding upper and lower limits for the standard deviation. Figure 38.11 shows a table of the 95% ...

A confidence interval is a statistical concept that shows how likely it is that a range based on a sample of a population contains the mean, or the actual figure, for that data set. It’s useful when a ...

Third in the series: Nobody becomes a Psych major to study statistics The science of uncertainty. Statistics – much to the regret of many potential psych majors – is the core methodology that links ...

In the first article in this series,1 we presented an approach to understanding how to estimate a treatment's effectiveness that covered relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number ...

Sometimes it’s hard to have confidence in science. So many results from published scientific studies turn out to be wrong. Part of the problem is that science has trouble quantifying just how ...

Explain the behaviour of a confidence interval over repeated independent sampling and how this is linked to the interpretation of a confidence interval as "providing a range of values which we are XX% ...