Chapter 8 Homework
(Starnes, Yates & Moore, 4th edition)

Estimating with Confidence

8.1 Confidence Intervals: The Basics

  1. Summary (480)
  2. Point Estimator (469)
  3. Activity (473)
  4. Interpretation of Confidence Intervals (474)
  5. Activity (477)
  6. Calculating the CI (478) & Conditions (479)

8.2 Estimating a Population Proportion

  1. Summary (495)
  2. Standard Error for a static (487)
  3. One Sample z intervals for a Population Proportion (489)
  4. The Four Steps of CI (490)
  5. Sample Size for a desired Margin of error (493)

8.3 Estimating a Population Mean

  1. Summary (516-517)
  2. One-Sample z Interval for a Population Mean (499)
  3. Sample Size for a desired Margin of error for Estimating μ (493)
  4. The t Distributions (501-506)- ( when σ is unknown )
  5. Degrees of Freedom (505)
  6. One-Sample t Interval for a Population Mean (507)
  7. SE (standard error) for a sample mean (507)
  8. Conditions for Inference about a Population Mean (508)
  9. Robust Procedures (511)
  10. One Sample t Procedures: The Normal Condition (512-513)
  11. Example: Case Closed (515-516)

Exercises

Section 8.1
p 481

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19-24

Section 8.2
p 496

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49-52

Section 8.3
p 518

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75-78

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