Explain why the author presented a confidence interval instead of just a sample statistic.

Module 4 Discussion

Research a peer-reviewed (scholarly) article that is of interest to you and contains a confidence interval, and use it to address the following:

Briefly summarize the goal of the study.

Explain the results of the study, including the confidence interval created and the level of confidence used. Your study may have more than one interval, or you may focus on just one.

Explain the confidence interval in the context of the situation. What does it indicate about the population mean?

Explain why the author presented a confidence interval instead of just a sample statistic.

Briefly summarize the results of the study. Who might be interested in them, and why?