Online Statistics EducationXYZ Homework Edition

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10.5 Confidence Intervals

  1. Introduction
  2. Confidence Interval for the Mean
  3. t distribution
  4. Confidence Interval Simulation
  5. Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Means
  6. Confidence Interval for Pearson's Correlation
  7. Confidence Interval for a Proportion

These sections show how to compute confidence intervals for a variety of parameters. The "Confidence Interval Simulation" allows you to explore various properties of confidence intervals.

Adapted from Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (onlinestatbook.com), Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Developed with NSF support. The original work is in the public domain; it is cited here at the authors' request. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with native MathML. License: Public-Domain.

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