Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Rinaldo B. Schinazi
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Rinaldo B. Schinazi: University of Colorado, Department of Mathematics

Chapter 5 in Probability with Statistical Applications, 2001, pp 103-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In a political poll of 100 randomly selected voters, 35 expressed support for initiative A. How does one estimate the proportion of voters in the whole population that supports initiative A based on the sample of 100? How much confidence do we have in our estimate?

Keywords: Central Limit Theorem; Standard Normal Distribution; Unbiased Estimator; Sample Standard Deviation; Defective Item (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-3421-8_5

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