7.1 Quick revision

We strongly recommend trying these Quick revision questions before your tutorial.

A confidence interval is used to find an interval that probably (but not certainly) contains the sample value. True or false?
All confidence interval are 95% confidence intervals. True or false?
A standard error is calculated from population data, but a standard deviation is calculated from sample data. True or false?

FALSE. A CI is an interval which probably contains the population value. We already know the sample value... we don't need an interval for it.
FALSE. Confidence intervals can be any percentage (though \(90\)%, \(95\)% and \(99\)% CIs are the most common, and \(95\)% easily the most common of all).
FALSE. A standard deviation is a measure of variation in the individuals; a standard error is a measure of how much a sample summary value (such as the sample mean, or sample proportion) varies between samples.