An Introduction to Statistics: An Active Learning Approach
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Describe the distinct purposes of significance testing, effect sizes, and confidence intervals
- Explain the logic of confidence intervals
- Compute a confidence interval for a population mean
- Compute a confidence interval for a mean difference between a sample mean and a population mean
- Report confidence intervals in American Psychological Association (APA) style
- Identify correct and incorrect interpretations of confidence intervals