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In Chapter 6, we looked at methods of statistical inference: approaches to drawing inferences from samples of data about more general truths. One of these approaches is to use the data to produce an interval (or range), within which we can be confident the truth lies. These are called ‘confidence intervals’, and are the subject of this chapter. They can also be used to estimate how large a sample you need for a given purpose.
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Wood, M. (2003). How Big is the Error? Confidence Intervals. In: Making Sense of Statistics. Study Guides. Red Globe Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80278-0_7
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