Confidence Interval for a Population mean, with an Unknown Population Variance
If the population variance is not known, then we do the following change to the above confidence interval formula:
- Substitute the population variance (s) with the sample variance (s)
- Us t-distribution instead of normal distribution (explained in the following pages)
We use t-distribution because the use of sample variance introduces extra uncertainty as s varies from sample to sample.
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