Homework Help: Statistics

Posted by Parul on Friday, November 30, 2012 at 10:05pm.

What is the appropriate sample size for a confidence interval around the sample mean if you want a margin of error of 0.8 with 95% confidence and a population standard deviation of 12.

Statistics - PsyDAG, Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 1:35pm
95% = mean ą 1.96 SEm

SEm = SD/√n

.8 = 1.96 (12/√n)

Solve for n.

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