Tag Archives: Wiggle room

How much wiggle room we provide is based on how much confidence we wish to have that the range contains the actual population mean.

Topic 1: Results from surveys or opinion polls often report a range of values the sample statistic plus or minus a margin of error (the resulting range is called a confidence interval). This tells us that the range is likely to contain the population parameter. How much wiggle room we provide is based on how […]