Readings and Review
- This section of the Statistics Glossary covers confidence intervals. You may find it helpful to review the concepts and terms of this chapter here.
- This animated lecture on confidence intervals in
Hypothesis Testing provides an excellent review.
- This slide show on Confidence Intervals provides another good review of the concepts.
Interacting with Statistics
- You can use this site to help you calculate confidence intervals. To begin, enter the statistics (mean, standard deviation, and number of observations) from the analysis in Data Views section into the form.
- When you visit the following sites, you will be able to interact with a simulation. Be sure to read the explanation that precedes each simulation first. First, see this
Confidence Interval Simulation, and also this
simulation of
Confidence Intervals for Means. Click on 'Play' to see the simulation.