What does a 95% confidence interval for a mean suggest?Question 3Answera.The mean will increase by 95%.b.There is a 95% chance of replicating the study results.c.95% of the sample mean lies within the interval.d.95% of the population mean is expected to lie within the interval.
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What does a 95% confidence interval for a mean suggest?Question 3Answera.The mean will increase by 95%.b.There is a 95% chance of replicating the study results.c.95% of the sample mean lies within the interval.d.95% of the population mean is expected to lie within the interval.
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The correct answer is d. A 95% confidence interval for a mean suggests that if we were to take multiple samples and compute an interval estimate for each sample, we would expect the true population mean to fall within the interval estimates 95% of the time. It does not mean that 95% of the sample data lies within the interval, nor does it mean there is a 95% chance of replicating the study results. It also does not suggest that the mean will increase by 95%.
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