Confidence Intervals: Crash Course Statistics #20
Today we're going to talk about confidence intervals. Confidence intervals allow us to quantify our uncertainty, by allowing us to define a range of values for our ...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and Welcome back to Crash Course Statistics. Last week I ordered a pair of gold lame pants with DFTBAQ embroidered on them. The delivery guy said they could come by the next day at exactly 11am on the dot! Just kidding. That never happens. Instead of an exact time, the pants guy gave me a range of times...he said they’d be there sometime between 8am and 2pm. A lot of anticipation… We’ve focused a lot on point estimates, like the mean, which are our best guesses, but we can give ourselves a little more wiggle room. Let’s talk about Confidence Intervals. INTRO It’s useful to give pregnant mothers a “due date” when their children will most likely be born. But it might be more accurate to say that doctors expect the baby to come around the due d...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and Welcome back to Crash Course Statistics. Last week I ordered a pair of gold lame pants with DFTBAQ embroidered on them. The delivery guy said they could come by the next day at exactly 11am on the dot! Just kidding. That never happens. Instead of an exact time, the pants guy gave me a range of times...he said they’d be there sometime between 8am and 2pm. A lot of anticipation… We’ve focused a lot on point estimates, like the mean, which are our best guesses, but we can give ourselves a little more wiggle room. Let’s talk about Confidence Intervals. INTRO It’s useful to give pregnant mothers a “due date” when their children will most likely be born. But it might be more accurate to say that doctors expect the baby to come around the due d...
