Hypothesis Tests, Confidence Intervals, and Simulation to Infer Population Characteristics and Differences

Cynthia Fraser ()
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Cynthia Fraser: University of Virginia

Chapter Chapter 3 in Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010, 2012, pp 45-107 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Annual Household Income; Polling Organization; Population Proportion; Sample Proportion; Segment Sample (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9857-6_3

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