Chapter 9 Flashcards
1
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value of a statistic that estimates the value of a parameter
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point estimate
2
Q
interval of numbers based on a point estimate
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confidence interval
3
Q
expected proportion of intervals that will contain the parameter if a large number of different samples is obtained
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level of confidence
4
Q
n-1 : observations that have freedom to be whatever value they wish
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degrees of freedom