This lesson considers how to construct confidence intervals for the mean of a population and how to correctly interpret confidence intervals, for large samples. Simulated samples will be used to demonstrate confidence interval concepts.
Sample Topics
- Simulated data
- Bike assembly times
- Music concerts
- Chewing gum
Lesson Targets
- Use simulation to understand the properties of a confidence interval
- Explore the relationship between confidence intervals and confidence levels
- Construct a confidence interval
- Interpret a confidence interval
Materials Included
- Lesson overview with instructor's notes
- Activity sheet containing 13 exercises
- Activity answer key
- Minitab data sets