CONFIDENCE INTERVALS 2

Confidence Intervals

Confidence interval (CI) is a type of estimate that consists of an interval of numbers,

whereby a given sample of data set is used to calculate the range ofvalues, and “is likely

toinclude (an) unknown population parameter” (Holmes, Illowsky& Dean, 2017, p. 334). CI

“indicate the precision or reliability of…observations”, besides offering “a more dependable

alternative to conclusions based on the P value”(Hazra, 2017). Thus, in this assignment, the

purpose is to determine the CI for height data previously obtained for a sample of ten people

comprising of males only between the ages of 18 – 25 years, who are sick at a hospital in my

area