Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions Learning Objectives Understand the importance of sampling and how results from samples can be used to provide estimates of population characteristics such as the population mean, the population standard deviation and / or the population proportion 158.34 Kb. 1
Confidence interval for the mean of the population Assuming that it is known from previous studies that σ = months, how many mice should be included in our sample if we wish to be 99% confident that the mean life span of the sample will be within months of the population mean for all mice subjected to this 20.45 Kb. 2