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Samples are collected and analyzed to estimate population characteristics. Chapter 3 explores the practice of inference: how hypotheses about what may be true in the population are tested and how population parameters are estimated with confidence intervals.
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This example is a hypothetical scenario using actual data.
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Fraser, C. (2012). Hypothesis Tests, Confidence Intervals, and Simulation to Infer Population Characteristics and Differences. In: Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9857-6_3
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