Chapter 4

Question 1

process of inferring a population parameter from a random sample

Answer 1

Estimation

Question 2

Question 3

standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the estimate
Measure of uncertainty

Answer 3

Standard Error of an Estimate

Question 4

standard deviation of the estimate’s sampling distribution

Answer 4

Estimated Standard Error of the Mean

Question 5

range of numbers, calculated from the data, that is likely to contain within its span the unknown value of the population parameter

Answer 5

Confidence Intervals