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Inference by Eye: Pictures of Confidence Intervals and Thinking about Levels of Confidence
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Cumming, Geoff – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2007
A picture of a 95% confidence interval (CI) implicitly contains pictures of CIs of all other levels of confidence, and information about the "p"-value for testing a null hypothesis. This article discusses pictures, taken from interactive software, that suggest several ways to think about the level of confidence of a CI,…
Descriptors: Intervals, Statistics, Computation, Visual Aids